<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Despite the fact that incidents of in-person voter fraud in<br>the United States are exceedingly rare, the GOP has used<br>the issue to tighten election laws around the country."<br> —News reports</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="print-title"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Democracy</span></font></h1><div class="print-created"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet</span></div><div class="print-content"><div id="node-171130" class="node"><div class="content"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(<em>A Patriotic Hymn for Republicans</em>)</span></p></div></div></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">American children are all taught in school<br>That voting’s democracy’s most vital tool.<br>But in the wrong hands all that voting can bring<br>A little too much of a very good thing.<br>Yes, too many voters of darker complexion<br>Can cause the wrong person to win an election.<br>And college kids mostly are just in a phase<br>That makes them left wing and supportive of gays.<br>To us, each of them is a dangerous blighter<br>Whose voting should wait till he’s older and whiter.<br>So we put in laws we have reason to think<br>Will mean that the strength of these voters will shrink.<br>We shorten the hours, and ask for a lot<br>Of picture IDs—more than anyone’s got.<br>Their votes aren’t the votes that the framers intended.<br>We only regret that the poll tax has ended.<br>The voting we need in this land of the free<br>Is voting by people with whom we agree.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-------------------------------------<br></span><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares"</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>