As someone who's never missed a local or national election I just don't understand the pushback on showing a ID to vote. Is it really asking too much? I don't think so.
As someone who's never missed a local or national election I just don't understand the pushback on showing a ID to vote. Is it really asking too much? I don't think so.
It’s to brainwash a population into thinking that minorities are incapable of getting an ID (soft bigotry of low expectations) and so that they will give the Dems the ability to cheat.
Every person I know got their ID by the time they were 18, some 16 for driving. It’s a right of passage in America.
I think we should abolish voter registration and switch to just being able to show up with a valid ID. Opponents to voter ID say it's an unnecessary barrier to voting for less politically engaged citizens who don't have time to get one... then what exactly is our Byzantine voter registration process?
In Ohio we accept virtually any document with one’s address on it short of a Chuck E Cheese rewards card. Anyone screaming seriously about “obstacles” to voting has ulterior and nefarious motives, imo.
Local elections are based on where you live. Most people don't rush down to DMV when they move to update their license, esp. when they like the picture they already have.
When you change your address through the post office, it asks whether you want to change your voter registration. It’s very easy to update your voter registration.
I find it hard to believe that people move without leaving a forwarding address with the post office. I’m sure it happens but I doubt it’s massive numbers of people doing this.
Most do leave that forwarding address. Now, you work at the post office. Do you create the extra hours needed to manage another change-of-address request ? Or do you put the note in a to-do stack of papers ? Both responses can and do occur. Although we left our former residence in another state five years ago, leaving full change-of=address info, we still received mail-in ballots to help us vote in that state in 2020. If we wanted to, I'll bet we could follow the Devil down to Georgia and still make some mischief there.
The destruction of trust is because of the partisan spin - and the nature of tribal loyalty to party over truth. Each party lies about the other's objectives with regard to the franchise, and that what was acceptable to all yesterday is now hopelessly corrupt. The percentage of people who don't have ID, or have trouble getting it is vanishingly small.
Never mind the irony that the party that pushed the 3/5ths compromise and spent decades after the Civil War actually disenfranchising blacks makes political hay out of accusing the other party of wishing to do so.
Byzantine might be an exaggeration in some places, but people are getting purged from registration rolls due to "inactivity," and many people, especially since the 2008 crash, are transient, meaning they need to constantly re-register and are unsure if they are even allowed to vote come election day because they're somewhere else (mostly young and poor people, who are also least likely to have licenses). I think an ID and a basic proof of address (everybody's got bills) should be enough to walk into a polling place and vote. 50 million (24%) Americans aren't even registered at all, with our paper-based form system, while Canada has 94% people registered with an online system. I would challenge any argument that Canadians simply care more about politics.
As someone who's never missed a local or national election I just don't understand the pushback on showing a ID to vote. Is it really asking too much? I don't think so.
It’s to brainwash a population into thinking that minorities are incapable of getting an ID (soft bigotry of low expectations) and so that they will give the Dems the ability to cheat.
Every person I know got their ID by the time they were 18, some 16 for driving. It’s a right of passage in America.
I think we should abolish voter registration and switch to just being able to show up with a valid ID. Opponents to voter ID say it's an unnecessary barrier to voting for less politically engaged citizens who don't have time to get one... then what exactly is our Byzantine voter registration process?
In Ohio we accept virtually any document with one’s address on it short of a Chuck E Cheese rewards card. Anyone screaming seriously about “obstacles” to voting has ulterior and nefarious motives, imo.
Local elections are based on where you live. Most people don't rush down to DMV when they move to update their license, esp. when they like the picture they already have.
When you change your address through the post office, it asks whether you want to change your voter registration. It’s very easy to update your voter registration.
I find it hard to believe that people move without leaving a forwarding address with the post office. I’m sure it happens but I doubt it’s massive numbers of people doing this.
Most do leave that forwarding address. Now, you work at the post office. Do you create the extra hours needed to manage another change-of-address request ? Or do you put the note in a to-do stack of papers ? Both responses can and do occur. Although we left our former residence in another state five years ago, leaving full change-of=address info, we still received mail-in ballots to help us vote in that state in 2020. If we wanted to, I'll bet we could follow the Devil down to Georgia and still make some mischief there.
No, there are only lies told by each side.
The destruction of trust is because of the partisan spin - and the nature of tribal loyalty to party over truth. Each party lies about the other's objectives with regard to the franchise, and that what was acceptable to all yesterday is now hopelessly corrupt. The percentage of people who don't have ID, or have trouble getting it is vanishingly small.
Never mind the irony that the party that pushed the 3/5ths compromise and spent decades after the Civil War actually disenfranchising blacks makes political hay out of accusing the other party of wishing to do so.
Byzantine might be an exaggeration in some places, but people are getting purged from registration rolls due to "inactivity," and many people, especially since the 2008 crash, are transient, meaning they need to constantly re-register and are unsure if they are even allowed to vote come election day because they're somewhere else (mostly young and poor people, who are also least likely to have licenses). I think an ID and a basic proof of address (everybody's got bills) should be enough to walk into a polling place and vote. 50 million (24%) Americans aren't even registered at all, with our paper-based form system, while Canada has 94% people registered with an online system. I would challenge any argument that Canadians simply care more about politics.