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Identification is hard to acquire in many parts of the United States, especially for poor people. Enforcing some sort of voter ID would prevent many poor people
by huntertwo 8y ago
Identification is hard to acquire in many parts of the United States, especially for poor people. Enforcing some sort of voter ID would prevent many poor people from voting, who are disproportionately poc. In other countries, ID is not difficult to acquire, in some cases acquired at birth or at a very young age.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 8y agoFWIW as a HN reader and user here to offer some (of course anecdotal) perspective: I am a resident of Texas and they make it a definite inconvenience to register to vote. It’s 2018 and I have to print something off and mail it to my county to register. That means I have to know who to mail it to, have stamps, know the correct form to print off and have a permanent mailing address to receive correspondence to be able to complete the process (on top of all the other identification requirements detailed elsewhere). Now I know that isn’t a big deal to a lot of people here but there are a ton of people around where I live that it would be a significant enough barrier to entry to the point where they just wouldn’t bother. Compare this to some other states that make it super easy (Oregon comes to mind) and look at their voter fraud rates vs TX and you start to wonder if there is some ulterior motive at play here.