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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
This issue isn't really about id's. It's just more "my tribe vs your tribe" idiocy. Republicans are pushing it because these poor people who apparently can't get an ID card by any means at all are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. Thats somewhat understandable as it threatens their voter base...
However, the comedy in this issue is that there is still no logical reason why someone participating in a democracy should not have to verify their eligibility to participate. The arguments as to why they just can't possibly get any sort of valid ID at all, are just so sad, its depressing to think someone could even make these arguments about another human being which they are relying on to make educated decisions which determine the course of the future and the future of everyones children.
I don't have any issues with Canadians, but imagine daily threads of nuanced political discussion of Canadian politics, most of which created by Americans then featured the same 4 Americans telling you how 1/2 of Canada is nothing but a bunch of crazy assholes who hate people. It gets tiresome. They are everything themselves, which they claim to dislike in those they criticize  |
The problem with these laws isn't the ID requirements (for the most part). As I stated above most of them allow for you get a free ID if you can't afford it. I was reading today that the Texas law will give you a free ID if you can't afford it. They estimated that 1.4 million people would be affected by the law yet only about a dozen people have actually asked for an ID. It's not about the ID. It's about the other stuff that goes with it.
The old saying is that cigarette isn't something that allows you to smoke tobacco. It is a delivery system for nicotine. The ID section of the voter laws is just the package that the rest of the crap is sold to you in. Many of these laws include things like reducing days/hours of early voting, restricting days when you an register and not allowing people to vote anywhere but at their assigned precinct. There is no good reason to change any of these things except to use them as a method to reduce voter turnout.
In a time when we are constantly talking about ways to get more people to vote and how important voting is, we should not be passing laws that restrict how and when you can vote simply because it benefits one party.