| kanageddaamen said: Unless IDs are issued for free by the government (and payed for by tax payers mind you) requiring a person to purchase an ID to vote that they do not otherwise require is the equivalent of a poll tax, which is banned by the 24th amendment. To me there is no difference between "Pay the government when come to vote" and "Pay the government, and then you can come and vote" These laws are also a blatant attempt at voter suppression under the guise of solving a problem that simply does not exists in any statistical significance. http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/ There should be zero barriers to voting in a free republic. Any that are instituted are a direct blow to the democratic process, regardless of who is disenfranchised. |
A) Point to a state that doesn't offer an ID for free that has such a law.
B) You do need a state photo ID, to do many other things. Like cash a check... or get a job. Or get government assistance. Basically to function successfully in todays soceity you need a state ID.
C) Voter fraud doesn't have any statistical significance because there are no ways to judge it. It's like saying France has no problems with race inequality because the french don't collect data on race inequality. There are no effective measures for measuring voter fraud.
D) So... not letting one person vote is harmful to the insitutional practice.. but letting someone vote 15 times isn't harmful?
Not sure how that makes sense.
E) Republicans and Democrats both wanted voter ID laws in the past. Jimmy Carter thought they would INCREASE voter turnout rather them surpress it. Greatly increasing the voter turnout among registered voters.
