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Yeah but we have voter id. And for some reason Americans think it is unreasonable to have to have a government issued ID as this would disenfranchise all the people that don’t have an ID… Which I think is also weird. Just make IDs accessible to citizens at low costs and implement voterID across the board.

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billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
A certain political party benefits from low voter turnout. Which, coincidentally, also happens to be the party working to get Trump elected and shield him from the repercussions of his crimes.

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- Badeendje@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah. It’s also not as if doing this now will be reasonable. It will be something that needs to be put into law including the affordable national ID and then worked towards over the course of a decade or something.
  
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mle86@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They could just make a government ID that is not mandatory. Much like a passport. And whoever holds a passport or a voluntary govt ID is automatically enabled to vote using their ID / passport, but then would still leave the choice of registering for voting for those who don’t trust “the government”

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- Badeendje@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Why? The whole “illegals are voting” will be dead in the water. And requiring someone to be able to ID themselves using a government issued and official ID when performing stuff like voting is not weird. The whole convoluted show up with birth certificate yadda yadda is.
  
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  - mle86@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah that’s pretty much what I meant, sorry if I wasn’t clear.
    
    I just think in order to reduce the resistance against such a change, it might be good to still provide the “old” method with voter registration for anyone who doesn’t want a government ID because of “muh freedoms”.
    
    That way, any normal citizen can just have a government ID and by identifying themselves be able to vote without further registration. Any citizen who doesn’t want an ID can go through a voter registration process, same as today.
    
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Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Just make IDs accessible to citizens at low costs

This is where you’re missing it. The point of requiring voter ID in America is to make it as difficult and inaccessible as they can

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