The way voter ID laws like this prevent citizens from voting is generally considered a feature — by restricting ID forms common among the young, such as student IDs, they change the makeup of the electorate to favor Republicans.
The way voter ID laws like this prevent citizens from voting is generally considered a feature — by restricting ID forms common among the young, such as student IDs, they change the makeup of the electorate to favor Republicans.
Most of them have a national ID that everybody gets, not the complex mix of IDs that the US has.
If we had that, and everybody had a national ID as a matter of routine, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But we don’t, because issuing one would be the mark of the beast or something.
And let’s be clear, the people saying “we must have ID to vote” are VEHEMENTLY opposed to this idea.
Oh, that’s weird, because giving everyone an ID and passing these laws would end all non-citizens voting, so it sounds like a fine compromise to get what they are asking for. Almost as if they are lying about what they want, very curious.
Except it’s already not happening. The whole pretending that it is, is how they sell their bad faith ways to disenfranchise voters.
That’s true, but then on the state level, such could be implemented alongside that type of law, within a given state, and then that state would be set up ‘equivalently’, right?
Those two things should go hand in hand, ideally within the same legislation, I’d think.
It could, but in practice never is; it’s always things like “we want you to put street numbers on your drivers license, but the reservations don’t have street numbers” or “We’ll accept concealed carry permits, but not student IDs” or “gee, urban residents are less likely to have a driver’s license, let’s mandate that”
They are set up by the state.
They cost money, they cost time (to go and get an ID), and they can have a wait to receive it.