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If you're going such lengths to abuse voter ID laws, then no-voter-ID is probably abused too :) At worst, one abuse is replaced by another abuse. And once vote
by mantas 1y ago
If you're going such lengths to abuse voter ID laws, then no-voter-ID is probably abused too :)
At worst, one abuse is replaced by another abuse. And once voter ID law is in, it's much easier to make tiny changes on prices, offices work hours and so on.
On the other hand. Somehow I don't hear people complaining that driver licenses in US are too expensive and too hard to get, thus fuck it, people can just drive without one...?
- const_cast 1y agoThe unfortunate reality is that access to drivers licenses is correlated with race and poverty (which is, in turn, correlated with race). The US is still largely segregated. If you just require voter id, then you will disproportionately affect black people. Not might, not may, will. Our politicians aren't stupid, they know this. In fact, this is the sole reason these laws exist. This is the goal. If it wasn't, they would at least admit the risk of this. But they don't even do that.
- mantas 1y agoMaybe if both sides of the aisle are pissed about recent elections, this is a good time to both introduce voter ID and improve national ID issuing in a way to make it accessible? E.g. fair price ($10-20?) for processing and offices open on saturdays. Looks like win-win to me.
- const_cast 1y agoRight, what I'm telling you is that the right explicitly does not want to make it more accessible. They won't even admit there is an accessibility problem, let alone propose any solutions. Why? Probably because the lack of accessibility is not a side-effect of the law, but rather the sole goal of it, as it has been every single time it's been implemented in the past. But, your guess is as good as mine.