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BMaker11 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.

You misunderstand. Dems aren't against IDs because of a "long list of BS". They're against it because Republicans abuse the system and disenfranchise many voters. Republicans very much so suppress the vote. Hell, Trump got mad that that county in Nevada kept their polls open so "certain groups" would get to vote......."certain groups" that were already in line to vote, waiting to do their civic duty, but the line was so long (because Republicans do things like cut polling hours and polling locations) that the polling hours were closed with several people still in line. 

But that's a different monster when it comes to Republicans suppressing the vote. We're talking about voter ID. So why are Dems against it, if not for a "long list of BS"? How about how Republicans find out what kind of IDs people get, based on race, then whichever ID is mostly used by black people, they make it ineligible to vote. 

Dems would actually be for a national ID. Because it enfranchises all eligible voters. Republicans would be against it, considering they like to find what "types of ID" specific demographics use the most, then make that type not valid to vote. A unilateral system of ID would take away the advantage they have. Also, they'd probably scream "states' rights" because the federal government would be "overreaching in dictating what a state requires for ID".