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I think the idea is to deny minorities the right to vote so that you can win elections.

• rdtsc 9y ago
  Make IDs subsidized if person makes less than $X/year or just subsidize for everyone. Whether ID is required for voting can be orthogonal to having IDs for other government services just not have a flimsy piece of paper with a 9 digit number on that is now know to everyone probably after the Equifax hack. But let's say it is required for voting as well and it is subsidized. How exactly does it deny minorities the right to vote? Not sure what minorities we are thinking about but wonder if there is an implication that some would not be able to figure out how to get an ID, which I think is a bit insulting to those minorities. For example let's look at India: --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar Aadhaar is the world's largest biometric ID system, with over 1.171 billion enrolled members as of 15 Aug 2017.[3] As of this date, over 99% of Indians aged 18 and above had been enrolled in Aadhaar.[4] --- So this is a country with a lot more poor people, with issues such as open defecation, and worse poverty, and arguable not as advanced as US, and they managed but here in US it's somehow a minority issue? I just don't see it.
  • neo4sure 9y ago
    I am sorry but you're not getting my point if IDs are available in a properly controlled manner from the federal government, which has members that are independent of the white house (like the FBI head) I'm all for subsidized id's. What I don't want is it to go to the state level.