Monday, November 19, 2012

IDs For Voting Blog Critique


The blogger of The Red White & Blue, Emily Velazquez created a post on election day (Are You Who You Say You Are?) referring to the discussion about the requirement of state issued identification cards for the process of voting. In this article she described the effects of the choice should it be enacted mostly in a negative perspective such as party strength diminishing from excluded groups. The reasons behind the suggested change for voting requirements is given in her writings and have legitimate claim to why it would be done. Yet her argument against it is listed out in a even pace though could of used some distinct separation via line breaks.

The view was well proposed as Democratic leaning parties would affected such as low-income, elderly, and minority though specifics could have been added on. By specifying particular groups and why they were more Democratic sided would add a better understanding of why they are affiliated via the blog post. Understanding the how of these groups the audience can get a better grasp of the impact of the new ID ruling discussion.

The use of statistics helps fulfill the need of reliability of the information to back the idea, a good addition to the post. The belief that the numerical value does come to contribute to the information is innate I believe to a general audience. I would of liked to have seen more fleshing out of the argument though she did an admirable job of presenting all the information to the reader. It is in my humble opinion the post conveyed its main point quite well though could stand to see a more refined structure.

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