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> Drivers license or a hunting license are acceptable but student ID is not acceptable to vote does not make sense. Drivers licenses are issued by a single sta

> Drivers license or a hunting license are acceptable but student ID is not acceptable to vote does not make sense. Drivers licenses are issued by a single state-wide government agency in each state and there are national standards for their security. Student IDs are issued by thousands of educational institutions, both public and private, and they don't have the same security standards. It is much easier for election officials to distinguish genuine from fake drivers licenses than genuine from fake student IDs, so it actually makes a lot of sense to accept the former as voting ID but not the latter. I know less about hunting licenses, but if they are issued by a statewide agency, they would be closer to drivers licenses than student IDs, so accepting them but not student IDs makes sense too.

seadan83 2y ago
If a persons goal is to disenfranchise young & poor voters, but enfranchise those that hunt and or have more money (which closely associates to being white), then hunting license & drivers license makes perfect sense while rejecting student licenses. To your point of how official they are to obtain: "Hunting licenses can generally be purchased at any retail outlet that deals in hunting and fishing equipment, such as sporting goods stores." [1] University ID cards are generally hard to get, and significant if forged. Let's not gloss over the other side of this coin where this type of fraud that is prevented by voter id is vanishingly small. To be blunt, it really is just a modern poll tax, a way to disenfranchise specific demographics. [1] https://www.fws.gov/initiative/hunting/purchase-hunting-license https://www.fws.gov/initiative/hunting/purchase-hunting-lice...