Now of course if you do not want perfectly legal voters to vote, then it is no problem. What you have done is make it illegal for some folks to vote that were perfectable legal in prior elections.....unless they do exactly as you say. They went from perfectly legal to not legal unless they do as you say.
http://www.rosporkad.com/2010/07/09/what-an-old-malcolm-gladwell-article-can-tell-us-about-the-gulf-spill/
The Gulf spill resulted from two malfunctions: 1) the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded for as yet unknown reasons, and 2) a device called a “blowout preventer” didn’t stop the massive gush of oil that resulted (and is still resulting . . .) from the explosion. And, we now know, BP
had paltry plans in placefor addressing this disaster.
One reaction to learning of this is, “How on earth did BP (or the government) set this operation in motion without being sure the equipment would work?” Probably much the same way the NASA engineers overlooked the faulty o-ring that gave way to a fuel leak that exploded the
Challenger space shuttle. Malcolm Gladwell (author of
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
, and Outliers: The Story of Success
) explains in “Blowup,” a 14-year-old article in his latest anthology of New Yorker stories
, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
that NASA had identified the o-ring as being risky . . . in a book spanning six volumes containing similarly risky items.
Space shuttles are complex. So is deep water drilling. With any complex, technological, highly competitive industry (oil, not space), risk is inevitable, even essential, to progress. NASA, Gladwell explains, could have chosen to improve the o-ring. However, having improved the safety of the space shuttle by a small increment, it would have felt justified in taking a new risk–with a new kind of metal or tubing, or whatever. This is called consuming a benefit, rather than saving it.
We consume a safety benefit rather than save it every time we drive our cars. We could ensure public safety by driving 30 mph, and in tanks. But people need to get places, and they don’t want to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a vehicle to take them. So we drive 70 mph, in cars of moderate safety. The National Highway Safety Transportation Administration reported 34,017 fatal car accidents in 2008, but nobody is seriously considering a major change in speed limit or car design.