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But they are up for debate for all the caveats you’ve listed. I have yet to see any plan that resolves the issue of free as in beer and free as in: people can
by tw04 5y ago
But they are up for debate for all the caveats you’ve listed. I have yet to see any plan that resolves the issue of free as in beer and free as in: people can easily obtain said ID with little to no inconvenience.
All of the politicians pushing for ID laws brush away the whole obtaining an ID thing as an already solved problem… except it very much isn’t. Anyone that had to try to visit the DMV in a large city has likely discovered you’re lucky if it’s only a day-long affair.
- jimbob45 5y agoWhat matters is that we're all on the same page. Everyone is generally okay with voting ID requirements as long as they're free and everyone is okay with lower costs/lower time investments to get IDs. The fact of the matter is that state budgets are finite and very few politicians are ever going to choose to fund DMVs over schools or public works. As such, we collectively choose to remain in stalemate until such a time when our DMVs function smoother so that we can make IDs free and then require them to vote.
- ibejoeb 5y ago> little to no inconvenience Since when has this been the standard? Is anything else inconvenient? Strikes me as a little ridiculous.
- namdnay 5y agoWell the objective is to get as many people to vote as possible, so it does make sense to make that as easy as possible.
- ibejoeb 5y agoOh, well, when you put it that way it makes sense. We can just not authenticate the votes at all then. Then anyone can vote. That is absurd. That's not the goal. Only citizens can vote, and the votes need to be legitimate.
- switch007 5y agoIs it? Whose objective is that? It's not the objective of the ruling party in the UK, for example. Quite the opposite...just to get the right people to vote.