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Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds

Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The authors found that “polling clerks are more likely to fail to compare a photo ID to the person presenting that document if the person is of a different ethnicity”.

They also highlighted the case of Andrea Barratt, who is immunocompromised and was blocked from entering a polling booth after refusing to remove her mask for an identification check.

WTF am I even reading? The problem is that some clerks are too stupid to identify non-white persons? And that someone else refused to take off the mask for 2 seconds to show her face!!?

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x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Immunocomprimised may potentially be a big risk landing someone in hospital if they inhaled something from the atmosphere that a weakened Immune system could handle

Sometimes that risk could end up being fatal

Fyi not a doctor but most people excluding anti-vaxers know how immune systems work

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- Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you are that endagered you would also not be casually walking around with a normal mask… They are not a 100% protection.
  
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  - Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Really shouldn’t have to take the risk to stick a cross next to your favourite Oxford University graduate’s figurehead
    
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  - x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    People also don’t want to end up in hospital feeling horrible as well
    
    Immunocomprimised people have died because of covid and the anti vax idiots increased the amount of times that happened
    
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    SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Mail in ballots?
    
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RobotToaster@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

more likely to fail to compare a photo ID to the person presenting that document if the person is of a different ethnicity

Wait, are they saying if someone is a different ethnicity they are more likely to not check if the ID matches?

That’s how it reads to me but I don’t think it’s the intention?

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- LChitman@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think it means they're less likely to be able to identify that the ID photo is the same person as the one standing in front of them. It's the other-race effect, which I understand is quite natural for people of all races that have less experience with other races.
  
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  - RobotToaster@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, that’s what I assumed it was supposed to mean, but it really doesn’t read that way to me.
    
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Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It's kinda funny how this is the opposite problem of the usual "they all look the same!"

I would probably unable to vote in the UK, given that I am not white and have IDs with various stages of hairlength and glasses. I look quite different in every photo.

Btw. this doesn't seem to be much of an issue in Germany, so this looks more like growing pains with people who are not used to IDs.

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