In 2013, North Carolina passed one of the worst pieces of voter suppression legislation in the nation.
Now They Want To Be Able To Vote!
- Thread starter tay
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This is just so freaking ridiculous. Instead of working against mandatory ID for voting purposes, which without it elections are rife for exploitation, why are people not demanding access to ID for those that can't afford the fees?
Such a stupid argument against this and, of course, more hand wringing.
Such a stupid argument against this and, of course, more hand wringing.
Put the lighter down and meet me in the break room.
There's something I have to tell you.........
In Canada we need to show ID to vote, NO?? What's the Big Deal. You need ID to cash a check, go to the bar, buy cigarettes, booz..
So what harm is there to just show your ID to vote.
So what harm is there to just show your ID to vote.
Two reasons. One is,just as you suspect, a chance to raise hell and get folks all upset and screaming.
The other is that there's more to getting ID than the fee. Travel costs. Administrative interference. Telling somebody who took a day off work (unpaid) that her birth certificate isn't legible, or fails to meet some other requirement designed to deny ID to "those people."
The U.S., and particularly the South, has long experience with the use of administrative pettifogging to deny members of certain groups the vote. Might wanna at least consider that maybe they have a point not so easily seen from Canada.
Voter fraud is only an issue when the wrong side wins.
ETA: The wrong side being the "Right" side.
now there's a little prick that should burn himself. he and that fat bastard from young turks.
I'm not saying, have never said, they don't have a real problem......just that they're making the wrong argument. Fighting to keep people who don't have IDs without them, seems to me like it's keeping them down in more ways than it could potentially be 'helping' them.
Certainly closer to the truth than your "Everything is perfectly fair and just, and if someone is treated unfairly or unjustly, it's only a one-off, accidental, easily corrected error."