How Could It Be Hard To Get Voter I.D.?
May 9th, 2022 Barry Posted in Elections | No Comments »
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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels, each showing a different scene. In addition, there’s a small “kicker” panel under the fourth panel.
PANEL 1
The panel shows a counter at a fast food restaurant. We can see a couple of customers, and a couple of workers. The workers are wearing hats that very vaguely resemble hamburger buns. A sign on the wall shows a smiling hamburger with eyes, below the caption “Soilent Green YUM.” A smaller sign says “SAFETY” in larger letters followed by tiny print, which says “is a word we use a lot so you can’t sue us.”
The worker at the cash register is turning to speak directly to the reader.
WORKER: To get an official photo I.D., I have to go to the nearest government office, which is 90 miles away, and I don’t have a car, and even if I did my boss won’t give me a weekday off.
PANEL 2
We’re in what looks like someone’s back yard. In the foreground is a garden, with some sort of plant being grown in tidy rows. An elderly woman is kneeling on the ground in front of the garden, wearing a floppy straw hat, an apron with a floral patter, and holding a trowel. She speaks directly to the reader.
WOMAN: I can’t get I.D. without a birth certificate. But when I was born home births didn’t get birth certificates.
PANEL 3
A mover wearing jeans and a black tank top is carrying a sofa as he’s talking to the reader. (Presumably someone else is carrying the other end of the sofa, but that person is outside the panel border). It’s a little dark out, and this appears to be a residential area – he’s on a sidewalk, and there’s some grass and trees and an outdoor wall in the background.
MOVER: The state charges $60 for a driver’s license…. but first I’d need a copy of my birth certificate, which is $30. I can’t afford 90 dollars to vote!
PANEL 4
This panel shows the interior of a coffee shop. There are round tables, a big window showing some houses across the street, and a mural of a smiling coffee mug on the wall. A man and a woman sit together at a table, with mugs of coffee on the table. He is reading from a tablet he’s holding and looking annoyed as he talks. She is looking at a laptop, and doesn’t look up as she responds.
MAN: Why wouldn’t anyone be able to get an I.D.? Idiots!
WOMAN: People like that don’t deserve to vote.
SMALL KICKER PANEL UNDER THE BOTTOM OF THE CARTOON
The man from panel 4 is yelling a bit at a drawing of Barry (the cartoonist).
MAN: If it’s easy for me it must be easy for everybody! That’s just science!
