Heh….I see that that voter ID thing in GA got rejected — again:

The same federal judge who threw out Georgia’s voter ID law last year blocked the state Wednesday from enforcing its revised law during this year’s elections.

The ruling came less than two hours after the Georgia Supreme Court denied the state’s emergency request to overrule a state court order that blocked enforcement of the new photo ID law during next week’s primary elections and any runoffs. […]

If the rulings stand, Georgia voters will not have to show a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot this year. The state’s primary election - which would have been the first election for which the IDs were required - is scheduled for Tuesday. The general elections are Nov. 7.

There were charges that it amounted to discrimination and/or a poll tax by critics.  Odd, since they made the IDs available free.  But really that’s almost beside the point when you look at the big picture: notice that there’s been an increase in unease about the ballot box recently?  Allegations of vote-fraud are mainstream now, the accuracy of electronic voting is in question, the whole thing is under more scrutiny than ever before.  Sure, accusations of vote suppression or vote-buying aren’t in any way new, but it’s safe to say it hasn’t been such a chunk of discussion until now.  It all sounds familar in a way I’m uneasy about, strikes me as, well, banana republic-like.

This is NOT in any way to say that these things should be ignored, AT ALL, do not take it that way.  Rather, it’s a sign of how much politics interferes in that we have such passions about it now.  The way we react nowadays you’d think this were one of those countries we hear about where politics is just an extension of tribal strife & who wins determines who lives or dies…