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Easy access to getting ID. If you don't drive (many poorer people don't have access to either a car or education on how to drive one) getting an ID is surprisin
by adjkant 8y ago
Easy access to getting ID. If you don't drive (many poorer people don't have access to either a car or education on how to drive one) getting an ID is surprisingly hard. If it was a mandatory law that all people are given a national ID card and it was made readily available, then I think much criticism would go away. But in the current state of laws, poor people struggle to get ID, minorities are poorer statistically, and more poor people are Democrats statistically. Hence why it becomes a partisan issue in a similar way of gerrymandering.
The second part of this is the obvious motivation - with voter fraud being so low as to be nonexistent (as shown with recent news about the "voter fraud" committee that has done and found absolutely nothing), what is the motivation for the laws given how many people it would negatively affect?
- adjkant 8y agoThis is just presenting factual information, how is this being downvoted?
- rectang 8y agoThe subject is very polarizing, and posts which explicitly name political parties tend to rile things up. I suggest talking about politically polarizing matters in terms of interests. For example, "Voter ID laws as implemented in the USA tend to result in diminished participation by poor people because [explanation]. Such laws tend to be favored by those who benefit from poor people voting less, and opposed by those who benefit from poor people voting more." This depersonalizes the conflict a bit, and allows us to have the kind of insightful debates that HN is for.