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Politicians just use those accusations as cover for conducting fraud or enabling the conditions that they inherently benefit from. There's no reason to not use
by chrisco255 9mo ago
Politicians just use those accusations as cover for conducting fraud or enabling the conditions that they inherently benefit from. There's no reason to not use paper, ID checks, and same-day accounting.
- hackyhacky 9mo ago> There's no reason to not use paper, ID checks, and same-day accounting. Sure there is. ID checks make it impossible for people who don't have government-issued ID to vote, which is a lot of people; and furthermore ID checks don't actually improve election security. Same-day counting is impossible if you are going to count all mail-in votes that were sent before the deadline. To be clear, I'm not saying that politicians aren't agitating for conditions that benefit them. That's there job. But I also believe in supporting access to voting and fair elections, and at least some of the politicians' arguments help achieve those ends.
- array_key_first 9mo agoThere are many reasons not to do those things, "lalala not listening" isn't an excuse. It's usually very simple, too. For voting ID: ID isn't evenly distributed, and that's not an opinion, that's a fact. So if you require ID, then obviously you will suppress some demographics more than others. That creates a bias. Again, not opinion. This can be solved. You will notice none of the people championing voter ID make even a thinly-veiled attempt to solve it. Instead they say stupid things like "oh wow so black people can't get ID now? Uh, buddy, I think YOU'RE the racist one!"
- hintymad 9mo agoYeah, I forgot voter ID. All democratic countries mandate voter ID except the US and another couple(?). Yeah, as if only the US has the "voter access" problem