Quote (duffman316 @ 10 Apr 2021 03:01)
Voter id isn't inherently racist, it should certainly be a requirement. The only problem is i dont trust the motives of the people who push for it as they're the same people who have a habit of shutting down voting booths in negroes neighborhoods. Outside of that illegals should certainly not get the same rights as citizens in terms of voting.
well duh. voter ID laws as a general concept are obviously not inherently racist, but that's not the argument. when you look at the US, where 25% of black people simply don't have a valid photo ID, introducing such laws would lead to
racist outcomes, completely changing the voter demographic,
and that's the point of all those new republican voting laws: limiting, inconveniencing, and disenfranchising minorities as they tend to vote democrat.
instead of changing their platform to appeal to more voters, republicans rig the system: from voter purges, closing polling places in populated areas, limiting voting times, opposing election day as a holiday, extreme gerrymandering, to sabotaging the USPS. it's a clear strategy to keep voters away, and they're not exactly being subtle about it... then again, why would they, when their supporters either share their undemocratic motives, or are just so gullible that they fall for their transparent excuses and baseless claims about systematic voter fraud...
This post was edited by fender on Apr 9 2021 08:46pm