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You really think poor people and minorities don't have IDs? They must never interact with any form of government or finance that ever needs an ID. This is a m
by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
You really think poor people and minorities don't have IDs? They must never interact with any form of government or finance that ever needs an ID.
This is a massive trope some people bring up all the time. Please show credible data that this is true and I'll happily admit I'm wrong.
- eschaton 2y agoEnough don’t that this can be an effective means of voter suppression, otherwise the states doing it would not be doing it. It doesn’t actually improve election security at all, all it does is add expense and difficulty to voting even for their own voters.
- flappyeagle 2y agois there research on this?
- thecyborganizer 2y agoAn enormous amount - see, for example, this study: https://www.voteriders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CDCE_VoteRiders_ANES2020Report_Spring2023.pdf https://www.voteriders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CDCE_V... About 10% of eligible voters don't have the ID they would need. The people most likely to lack proper ID for voting are young, Black or Hispanic, and poor. Lots more details in the report!