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I personally don't have a problem requiring photo-ID to vote, but when it is required, then a basic photo-ID should be provided for free to everyone. Otherwise
by RexRollman 12y ago
I personally don't have a problem requiring photo-ID to vote, but when it is required, then a basic photo-ID should be provided for free to everyone. Otherwise, it will adversely affect low income voters.
- lsh123 12y agoI actually like the proposed in the article solution: educate people at the voting place. It is low-cost and doesn't create yet another bureaucracy to distribute photo-IDs.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 12y agoIf such a system is implemented where everyone gets a free id, then it will end up used for everything. This was the fear with social security numbers way back when, and they wrote laws to prevent it being used except for official SSA purposes. Even those laws eventually eroded, first letting credit agencies and the IRS use them, and later on just about everything else. I'd rather that the friction here lead to people killing the voter id laws, rather than universal ids being issued.
- pessimizer 12y agoPhoto ID is already used for everything.
- tobinfricke 12y agoWhere, in the United States, "Photo ID" is basically synonymous with "Drivers' license". A strange state of affairs, indicative of our car-dependent society.
- elektronjunge 12y agoYou can get a state issued photo id that is not a driver's license. It just happens that nearly everyone has a driver's license, which is also government issued, so its convient to combine the two cards. Though state issued ids prove different things. For instance, states conforming to the REAL ID laws it says that you are a legal resident. For other states it just means that the state issued you an id card.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 12y agoReal ID is just another attempt to create the id nightmare. There's been some minor backlash against it, but...