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? asked in Politics & GovernmentElections · 4 weeks ago

How is making people prove who they are by an id any citizen can get voter supression?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    I don't think it is, BUT, as part of their "Law", they should give instructions on HOW to get it, which of course they conveniently didn't.  (The only reason I KNEW how to get my birth certificate is because I've done it before, to get a passport.)  We DO have id laws here, and it's even printed as a bar code on the back of a driver's licence and if they want, the people who sign you in merely have to run you license through something that is very similar to those car-swipe things you see at checkout lanes at stores.)  I swear, before my time, but this is just a modified version of what they used to do to keep people from voting:  "how many jelly beams are in this jar?" or "please read the following (and then they show a poem in Chinese characters)".

  • 3 weeks ago

    Its simple.  Every citizen has the sacred right to vote, right? Anything that you do that makes it harder for some groups of citizens to vote while others are not bothered is potentially discriminatory. You give the example of voter ID. Voter ID is somewhat discriminatory as obviously some very poor people may not be able to vote because of it, as they may not be able to afford the $40 or whatever to pay for the ID. Voter ID however is not the biggest problem.  Lets look at something like cutting voting sites by half and creating very long lines.  Who does that discourage from voting?  We all know who;;;;;people who do not have a very leisurely care free life and can easily take time off work to go wait 4 hours in line that is who.  There are many others....but the main thing you have to ask yourself is why these restrictions keep happening when we have never seen any major outbreak of voter fraud that needs to be addessed.

    Look man, I have to be honest with you.  Bad people with bad agendas are not honest...they do not tell you hey we want to do something very bad and we are going to be honest and tell you what our intent is. What they do is lie and make up pretexts.  So the goal is to suppress voting, they will never come out and say that. Instead they say we want better election integrity. It has gotten so bad with the lying that they now even say that the actions they take to suppress voting are designed to increase voter turnout.  That is what bad people do. Bad people do bad things and they will swear to you up and down that they are not doing what you know they are doing. You live in the world like I do.....you know exactly what I am saying. You can pretend you don't but you do.

  • 4 weeks ago

    The dems know Trump won it fair but they lied and cheated they erased the votes and thier crimes and  deleted data and votes on them voting machines that why they closed some of the places early and made the republican workers leave cause they needed to shut down the video cameras and then have the hackers come in and wipe the republican votes off the voting machines that why they said thier is no voter fraud cause they knew what they were going to do on day one they knew they couldn't beat Trump with all his rallies and all his supporters so they decided to decive us all by attacking the voting machines and paying high dollar amounts to all the best hackers in the world to come and wipe the votes away that Trump did have to win this will all come out in 70yrs from now but they have to wait till everyone is dead who knew about it its just like The JFK info all finally coming out who killed Kennedy same will happen for Trump and prove that he did win the election we won't see it but our children will.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    It isn't.  Welcome to the revolution.

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    Selectively reducing resources to make a targeted group wait in much longer lines is voter suppression.

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    Only the GOP membership card will count, you can be sure.

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    It creates another hoop for people to jump through, and one that can keep them from voting by increasing friction.  The results aren't necessarily trivial either.  The current Governor of Georgia won his election by a margin of votes lower than the number of people who were kept from voting by that states law. 

    Furthermore, your question assumes that getting an ID which satisfies the law is easy.  That's not always the case, particularly when lawmakers looking to disfranchise people try and make it harder.  For example, in Alabama they were going to close all of the DMV offices in nine of the ten counties with the highest black population in the state.  In Georgia the name on your ID must match exactly the name on your voter registration.  So if your ID says "John Smith" and your registration says "Jack Smith" you can't vote.  This may be particularly significant for people with non-Anglophone names, whose names might be mistranscribed by workers at a DMV or the elections office.  In South Dakota, the voter ID law required that your ID have a street address on it.  Why?  Because many Native Americans in the state, who tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, live in rural parts of reservations where they don't have home mail delivery, and thus don't have street addresses. 

    The reality is that in literally every single case, these voter ID laws are motivated by voter suppression.  Republicans don't like that they're losing elections and since they're not willing to change in order to attract more votes, they need to try and "rig" the elections in their favor by making sure that the electorate favors them more. Voter ID is one tool to try and do that.  Sometimes, they've admitted it.  A Republican leader in Pennsylvania admitted that the entire purpose of the voter ID law was to allow Republicans to win the state. 

  • Jeff D
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    It's not, obviously.  Most civilized countries require some sort of ID to vote.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    This is yet another political football that, much like immigration, no politician really wants to resolve because it makes for good fundraising and attack ads. Virtually every other nation on Earth had resolved this by providing every citizen with a free form of identification. In the US every eligible voter could receive an ID in the mail for mere pennies of tax layout as compared to the taxpayer money that's been spent on both sides to perpetuate this as a campaign issue. 

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    Take this to Politics.

    While you're at it, ask yourself, "Why is it that the folks that are so in favor of voter ID laws are usually against gun registration?"

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