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Soundwave on 05 December 2016
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Mr Puggsly said:
Soundwave said:

Easy solution -- 

Have a *free* government issued ID for all eligable voters that is made easily available to everyone (for example something that can be had on a weekend without having to wait at the DMV). That way only eligable citizens can vote. 

Simple. Republicans don't want to do this though because they need to supress voter turn out to win elections. 

I was with you until the last sentence.

Its actually democrats who are against requiring an ID. https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-sheet

"Research shows, for example, that more than 21 million Americans do not have government-issued photo identification; a disproportionate number of these Americans are low-income, racial and ethnic minorities, and elderly."

I'm all for government providing an ID free, primarily for the poor. But dems have a long list of BS reasons why we shouldn't.

Dems are against it because Republicans would use that law and saddle it down with costs and try to pile on restrictions on who can have an ID and who can't to try to lock out certain demographics (take a wild guess which one specifically) from getting those IDs. 

Make the IDs free, make them easy to get, and there's no reason why it wouldn't be a boon to Democratic voting blocks. 

While we're at it, I think felons who have served their time being barred from vote is also bullshit. There was a woman for example who wrote a couple of cheques that bounced (she wrote them just before she lost her job assuming she had a paycheque coming) and was convicted. She served her time. But now she can't vote because of her record. 

Millions and millions of black voters are disenfranchised from voting because they have criminal records. If you've served your time IMO you have the right to vote.