The Trump Thread

[Torillian]

Jimbo1337 said:

Torillian said:

And if we send such an ID to everyone for free that's a reasonable path, but if you charge people to get an ID and they have to miss out on work to go for the ID then some appreciable number of voters will be disenfranchised and doing that to try to avoid 400 mistaken voters is not worth it. 

Airport-style identity checks are by definition more cumbersome than if you didn't have to have them. We do that because we've determined that it's worth the inconvenience to avoid the unlikely but disastrous outcome of something like 9/11 happening again and because 9/11 showed that our previous security was not sufficient to avoid it. 400 mistaken voters in PA is not of a comparable severity and so I do not think we should have to put up with the same inconvenience to avoid it, and the current security in place has avoided anything of comparable severity so I'd rather just stick with what we have. Honestly I'd love to go back to being able to get a ballot in the mail and dropping it in a box but sadly I don't know that we'll ever get the convenience of the 2020 election again. 

TLDR: I disagree with your premise, Airport security does make life harder, we just deemed it worth it. 

You are conflating two entirely different steps: the administrative process of obtaining an ID versus the operational speed of verifying it at the ballot box. My argument is strictly about the latter. The current voting process heavily relies on manual tasks, where poll workers must slowly cross-reference paper rosters or manually type names into electronic books. My proposed system replaces this human-dependent bottleneck with automated technology. By instantly scanning an ID and flashing a confirmation light in seconds, this process eliminates human error and long lines at the check-in desk. It demonstrates that we can achieve efficient verification without adding any physical burden or inconvenience to the citizen's actual voting experience.

Ok then let's focus just on what you said. You want to have a photo id scanner at the voting station. Now these 400 people were mistakenly put in the voter roll upon getting their driver's license. So they had an ID that the system you are advocating for would have happily accepted. Your solution has no relation to the issue being cited. 

https://www.factcheck.org/2026/08/trump-overstates-magnitude-of-noncitizen-voting-in-new-jersey/