This blog is based upon an editorial written in the March 20, edition of USA Today. The editorial is entitled ?States Battle Voting Fraud with Epidemic of New Limits? and it?s opposing view: ?In Texas, Evidence of Voter Fraud Abounds?
Two articles debate election laws and question whether we should allow a state to put ID requirements in place at the voting stations.
The USA Today editorial is in support of NOT requiring ID as a means to protect against voter fraud. ?Greg Abbott, Texas attorney General, opposes this and defends why Texas has put in a voter ID requirement to minimize voter fraud.?It is interesting that both sides recognize the prevalence of fraud, and acknowledge fraud to be a problem in the voting system.
The?question is: How do we balance the actions needed to prevent fraud?
The USA Today Editor says ?individual rights transcend the protection of fraud?. In other words, if a person might be prevented from voting due to the inconvenience of getting an ID, then we should allow everybody to vote without ID?s.
Philosophically, this is the ?one versus many.? So the many can vote but the one might suffer because they couldn?t get around to getting an ID. ?The Texas?Attorney?General feels if a person wants to vote, they can get an ID. This doesn?t cost them money, it?s not inconvenient, we make it possible. He believes this is a matter of individual responsibility embedded in the right to vote.
As a matter of business, fraud is real and must be prevented. Collective individual responsibility goes out the window because the full responsibility for protecting against fraud is put solely on the particular business in question. ?See the difference?
It is modern social thinking that has allowed us to come up with this notion that people are not necessarily responsible and therefore can?t burdened with individual responsibility. In business you don?t have that option. The reality of the marketplace is that if you don?t stay focused on the disciplines of the individual responsibility and doing everything that it takes to protect against fraud, the marketplace will crush you. It?s an important business ethics discussion because we have to recognize that the standards in community have more bandwidth than the market allows us to have in business.
What are your thoughts?
Source: http://www.cfcbe.com/2012/03/30/election-laws-and-business-ethics/
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