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The problem with voter ID laws have rarely been with the ID itself. Very few people would have issue with a voter ID law which also guarantees that 100% of the
by crote 1y ago
The problem with voter ID laws have rarely been with the ID itself. Very few people would have issue with a voter ID law which also guarantees that 100% of the population can easily obtain said ID at zero cost.
The issue is that those laws are usually linked to very specific forms of ID, which just so happen to be easily available to certain demographic groups.
Imagine a voter ID law where the only acceptable form of ID would cost $50.000 to purchase. Would you consider that fair and nondiscriminatory? What if you could only get the ID on the third Tuesday of the month, between 14:00 and 14:30, at a single location in the entire state? What if the ID required you to pass a certain kind of test, judged arbitrarily by a government official?