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> This wouldn't solve the problem of too many inner city residents voting and messing up your legislative majority. I'm not a Republican, and I'm not advocatin
by weberc2 7y ago
> This wouldn't solve the problem of too many inner city residents voting and messing up your legislative majority.
I'm not a Republican, and I'm not advocating for a legislative majority for any party. You're not participating in good faith.
> In-person fraudulent voting is one of those problems that basically doesn't exist. People have looked for cases of it happening and have come up empty handed. Attempting to solve that problem is a waste of time. The only point of these laws is to suppress voting blocks.
Maybe. It's probably an order of magnitude easier and cheaper to implement some basic voter ID reqs (you know, like so many Europeans enjoy) than to continually validate that voter fraud is a non-issue _and_ persuade the country that it's a non issue. The idea that these laws only exist to "suppress [legitimate] voting blocks" is absurd; many countries have them, including those enviable European countries. How can securing our Democracy be a bad thing, any way? Recall which party was paranoid about foreign meddling in the last election, after all.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoID costs here in Europe too, but it's valid 8 or 10 years so it's not a huge problem. Someone is posting this link about one dmv being opened only 4 days a year for some reason but the population of that place is ca 3000 people. In Europe you don't have a dmv in a village and you get it done after every ten years at some bigger city or town.
- weberc2 7y agoRight. These are simple, tractable problems, and there are successful models the world over. That people fight so adamantly against something as straightforward as voter ID indicates ulterior motives.