The 6ft Hurdle wrote:Bascitball wrote:DanTown8587 wrote:
1. Voting is a basic right that should never be infringed upon. Requiring ID to protect voter fraud works against the idea that voting should have active participation. Significantly less people would vote if ID is required and the reason for wanting ID is essentially suppressing votes of people who tend to be Democrats.
1. Owning guns is a basic right that should never be infringed upon. Requiring ID to protect against gun fraud works against the idea that gun ownership should have active participation. Significantly less people would own guns if ID is required and the reason for wanting ID is essentially suppressing gun rights of people who tend to be Americans.
But seriously, how do you function as a human being without an ID in 2016? This topic will never be debated in an intellectually honest way. How many people don't have a valid form of ID? Do we really want those people to be able to vote? Would requiring an ID make dishonest people think twice about committing fraud? If requiring an ID doesn't work, then why do we require it for so many other things in life? Can you even entertain the idea that people in favor of voter ID laws have good intentions?
Good video. I'd also add many Republican legislatures have implemented laws to make it harder to vote. In Arizona, they only accept Arizona IDs. And you can only get an Arizona ID if you have a birth certificate. Every time you move to a different county within the state you have to proof you are a US citizen when you vote. That means you better keep up with your records. If you vote in the wrong polling station, they don't count your vote. If your ID and your address don't match, they may not let you vote. During the primary (I live in AZ if you didn't notice) they had as many polling locations in Phoenix (a majority-minority city) as they did in Fountain Hills, a suburb 1/12 the size
In Alabama and Wisconsin, after passing voter ID laws, they closed most of the DMV offices in poor and minority counties. These are deliberate tactics used by Republican legislatures to stop minorities from voting. A court found that in North Carolina the legislature passed laws specifically to keep African-Americans from voting -
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-countrys-worst-anti-voting-law-was-just-struck-down-in-north-carolina/That obviously doesn't bother some people, who boil it down to "What's the problem with getting an ID?" But if you do like the least bit of research, you'll understand the problems pretty easily and goes far beyond an ID. If Id's are so important, than why haven't we outlawed absentee ballots? Because absentee ballots are favored by older, white Republican voters. Add the fact that there has not been evidence of any widespread voter fraud, and you start to understand why minority communities are suspicious. I mean, there this whole 400 year history of not being allowed to vote, or having the right severely restricted, that kind of gets people on edge.