Steal a Library Card to Vote in Memphis

"Tennessee voters will be able to show Memphis library cards to cast ballots in the upcoming November election.  A Tennessee appeals court ruled on Thursday that a state requirement that voters must show photo identification is valid, but said the library cards are acceptable."

I think the great state of Tennessee trusts its voters way more than they should.  I cannot say that I have ever seen a Memphis library card (Hell, for all I know it could have everything from your name to your permanent record your second grade teacher was always yelling about on it), but allowing the public to use the library card and only a library card is damn scary.  Just because you are in position of a library card does not mean you are in possession of your library card.  

Of course, this could be a sly message to the rest of the nation that Tennessee knows where it stands.  "We don't give a shit how you get a ballot," the Tennessee courts say, "Cause it don't make a fuck load of difference.  We're votin' Republican!  Red or dead, am I right, Mable?"

Then Mable shakes her head and goes back into the woods to mind the moonshine still and the ten children.

Memphis Library Cards Will Count as Valid ID at Polls - ABC News:

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Memphis Library Cards Will Count as Valid ID at Polls ABC News Tennessee voters will be able to show Memphis library cards to cast ballots in the upcoming November election. A Tennessee appeals court ruled on Thursday that a state requirement that voters must show photo identification is valid, but said the ... Tenn. appeals voter ID ruling over library cardSan Francisco Chronicle Tennessee: State Appeals Ruling on Library IDsNew York Times State officials appeal library card voter ID ruling to TN Supreme CourtThe Tennessean Shelbyville Times-Gazette -Memphis Commercial Appeal -Houston Chronicle all 249 news articles »

Simple Proposal: Library Credit Card

In this season of returning, we should begin to look at what can make the library more money.  I propose a library credit card.  Think about it for a minute.  Now think about elephants.  Now stop thinking about elephants and go back to the credit card thing.  Why shouldn't we have a library credit card?

 A BAT-LIBRARY-CREDIT CARD!!

Below are 4 reasons library cards and credit cards can be friends.

1.  Patrons will always have it
Think of every time a patron searched for their library card.  How many credit and gift cards do they go through before they reach their library card?  Now think if that library card was right there, piled in between the Visa and the Pep-Boys punch card.  How awesome would that be?

Getting it done, BAM! 

2.  Easy to pay fines
You ever have that charge from the credit company that went directly on your account without you know?  You know how frustrating that is?  Now you can do that to other people!  Remember that old adage about two birds in a bush being hit by a stone?  You are that stone!  A stone that pulls in so much money that the Friends collapse from disuse.

More like money printing

4.  You can give your patrons the gift of credit.
Think of a little, sweet kid that comes in, gives you a hug, and draws pictures of you with brown rainbows over your head.  Now add ten to twenty years.  Little Jimmy is all grown up and looking for a car loan.  When the bank official checks his credit score, he will be taken aback.  "How did you get this great credit score, Jim Jiminy Jim Jim Jim?" the official will ask.  Jimmy slowly pulls out his library credit card.

"Check it out, home skillet," Little Jimmy says.

5.  Everybody loves to multitask

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