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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.nettopolitics @lemmy.world•Four Democrats Pass Bill Making It Harder for Married Women to VoteEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I don’t think the idea, of making sure your voters are citizens and who they say they are, is unreasonable. I’m a bit surprised it already wasn’t the case.

    It is already the case that we verify who people are at the polls. That’s what the voter registration card is.

    Voter registration card => Free, no travel needed, can be done outside of businesshours, no prerequisites that cost money, just need to know your information

    Drivers license => Money, travel, time during business hours

    Passport => same as previous

    They want to move us off of the system that’s already working to verify identity with no barriers to entry, to one that does have barriers to entry.

    I also think it kind of pales in comparison when you think about how the entire system after votes are cast works. If you’re a republican in California or a Democrat in Texas, you might as just not vote. After the opposite party “win the state” your vote no longer matters. That shouldn’t be the case. Each and every vote should have equal worth.

    I agree, it’s fucked up and planely apparent that it’s a failure even on paper.

    However it is still worth voting in every election, aa there are local positions on the ballot every time, and those have a much better chance of being swayed away from the lunatics in the GOP. And that’s especially the case if it’s a city.

    The whole system we have for elections is fucked, the least we can do is not make it more fucked by putting up more barriers to entry.

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.nettopolitics @lemmy.world•Four Democrats Pass Bill Making It Harder for Married Women to VoteEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I don’t see a problem with having people provide ID to vote

    I just explained it.

    That’s how you make sure they are who they say they are.

    No, the current default is voter registration cards.

    https://www.usa.gov/voter-id

    Basically you go to the election office, or your state’s website. Then you fill out everything that proves who you are (current address, SSN, etc), and they give you a registration card to prove you are who you are.

    Or you register for a mail in ballot, which is basically the same process, but they just know where you live and therefore where to send your ballot.

    This sounds the same, bit the difference is that registration cards are free, and can be done online. Other forms of ID like drivers licenses and passports are not free, require transportation to some office, and take time out of your day during business hours (potentially hours, and potentially requiring time off from work which is an additional barrier).

    They are not the same.

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.nettopolitics @lemmy.world•Four Democrats Pass Bill Making It Harder for Married Women to VoteEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Just because other countries do it doesn’t make it ok.

    Nearly 21 million voting-age U.S. citizens do not have a current (non-expired) driver’s license. Just under 9%, or 20.76 million people, who are U.S. citizens aged 18 or older do not have a non-expired driver’s license. Another 12% (28.6 million) have a non- expired license, but it does not have both their current address and current name. For these individuals, a mismatched address is the largest issue. Ninety-six percent of those with some discrepancy have a license that does not have their current address, 1.5% have their current address but not their current name, and just over 2% do not have their current address or current name on their license. Additionally, just over 1% of adult U.S. citizens do not have any form of government-issued photo identification, which amounts to nearly 2.6 million people.

    Millions of Americans across political parties do not have a license. Twenty-three percent of Democrats (23 million people), 16% of Republicans (15.7 million people), and 31% of independents/others (10.5 million people) indicate they do not have a license with their current name and/or address. Nearly 15 million people indicate they do not have a license at all, including 9% of Democrats (8.6 million people), 6% of Republicans (6.2 million people), and 18% of independents/others (5.9 million people).

    Black Americans and Hispanic Americans are disproportionately less likely to have a current driver’s license. Over a quarter of Black adult citizens and Hispanic adult citizens do not have a driver’s license with their current name and/or address (28% and 27% respectively), compared to about one out of five adult citizens who identify as Asian/Pacific Islander (21%) or White (18%). Eighteen percent of Black adult citizens, 15% of Hispanic adult citizens, and 13% of Asian/Pacific Islander adult citizens do not have a license at all, compared to just 5% of White adult citizens.

    Democrats and independents/others are more likely to face these potential voting difficulties than Republicans. Eighteen percent of Democrats and 17% of those who are independent or not affiliated with one of the two major parties either lack an ID or have a form of ID that may cause voting difficulties, while only 11% of Republicans do.

    https://cdce.umd.edu/sites/cdce.umd.edu/files/pubs/Voter ID 2023 survey Key Results Jan 2024 (1).pdf

    TL;DR: If you want to swing elections to the GOP, an easy way to do that is to disenfranchise the voters who are more likely to vote democrat, which means disenfranchising younger and POC voters. An easy way to do that is to place additional monetary, logistical, and time barriers to entry to vote.