Voter Registration

The other day, I got my new voter registration card, a perforated section of a larger piece of card stock. It looked like it had been printed with a dot-matrix printer.  The difference between the driver’s license I recently received and the voter registration card was pretty striking. Our driver’s licenses do heavy identification duty. Yes, I know you need something like a driver’s license to even register to vote, but every year we hear people gripe about low voter turn-out. Maybe if our voter registration cards were more substantial, more impressive maybe, we might see people take voting more seriously.