Quote (fender @ Apr 7 2021 10:36am)
i love how all the republican shills, trying to rationalise a blatant voter disenfranchisement campaign, refuse to address the core points of my posts, and have to pivot to other narratives.
it's simply a
FACT that voter ID laws would disproportionally hurt poor and minority voters - as intended. it's also a
FACT that voter fraud that could be prevented by ID laws (voter impersonation) is basically non-existent. only 31 cases in a billion votes cast between 2000 and 2014. how could anyone without partisan motives possibly justify the disenfranchisement of millions in order to 'address' that non-issue?
it's so transparent... nothing about that is "uncontroversial" or "common sense". again, it's a
FACT that 25% of black voters do NOT have a government-issued photo-ID - so the comparison with countries where basically 100% of eligible voters have an ID, where it's affordable (or paid for by the government if you're poor) and easy to obtain one, is dishonest and stupid. meanwhile in america:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a-photo-id-so-you-can-vote-is-easy-unless-youre-poor-black-latino-or-elderly/2016/05/23/8d5474ec-20f0-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.htmljust out of curiosity, since i'm sure you consider yourself one of the "good" guys, just really really concerned about the security of your elections, and not at all interested in the partisan motivations of dishonest actors: wouldn't you agree that it'd be important to make sure that laws to "secure" the vote would not by design exclude a significant percentage of the population to participate, and dramatically change the demographic and the outcome of the vote?
It is strictly a question of whether or not you should have to present ID to vote. 70% of Americans say yes. Most of the world says yes. So now that we've gotten that out of the way, and have decided that yes, we want people to present voter ID, we can turn our attention to what roadblocks limit someone from getting ID.
The state of Georgia already offers, as far as I'm aware, free ID to anyone who wants one. So there doesn't appear to be much of a roadblock at all. If this is a problem, it sounds like people are not willing to go through the routine, basic, everyday measures required to vote.
My opinion is only that free ID should be offered free of charge. It would be unconstitutional, in my opinion, to force someone to pay for the right to vote.