| Makes more sense than making policy based on "the big lie" |
Oooh I see you corrected yourself and avoided insulting people. Good job! We’re all proud of you! 👍 |
Then, why are you against full background checks on ALL gun purchases, permit requirements for ALL gun purchases. Get real. The entire purpose of the GA GOP is to discourage Democratic voters from voting. In the sports world, it is called cheating! Change the rules. |
We knew all along why you are triggered. You don't really care about white people not voting. It's only because you believe black people are disproportionately impacted. |
Maybe some are lucky enough to live in a jurisdiction that still has far more local polling places than statewide DMVs. That sounds like the kind of question that someone who never actually voted in person before would ask. Or someone who lives under a rock. Or someone who lives under a bridge with the rest of the trolls. |
Umm. Black people in this country have traditionally been abused and disenfranchised. Ruby Bridges, who was screamed at and spat on just for going to a school with white children, is not even elderly. Don’t pretend that the way black people have been treated in this country is ancient history. Such garbage. |
The immigration situation has not changed so much since the early 2000s when Bush wanted to offer a kind of amnesty. Nothing has changed significantly in 20 years except for Republicans losing power unless they gerrymander and restrict voting Instead of saying something is irrelevant and stupid, how about you explain what has changed so drastically that we suddenly need these laws. I really doubt you're going to find any facts to support the argument but I would listen if you tried |
The immigration situation absolutely has changed. The number of people present illegally has changed considerably. Democrats have gone out of their way to ensure that we cannot accurately track the number of illegal immigrants currently in our country. And, in some jurisdiction, they are allowed to vote in local elections. We want to ensure that only those legally qualified to vote do so. Yes, it is that simple. |
Or since 1981 when Reagan did the same. |
No, it really hasn't and Democrats have done nothing of the sort. Stop watching Fox News, you are spouting bad information. |
Reagan's deal had the stipulation that our southern border be secured. It wasn't. No more amnesty until we have a secured border. |
Yes, it has. https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates And, yes, Dems have been successful in ensuring we don't have an accurate count. |
It is a right for CITIZENS. Presenting an ID proves you have the right (well, it did, until leftists started issuing driver's licenses to illegals) |
I lean towards the left side of the political spectrum and wholeheartedly agree. More in the sense that it adds validation to the process. Seriously, it's just logical. |
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Getting an ID requires multiple other documents. I've lived in the same place for 2 decades, in the same city for 3 and a half decades, and own my home. I was married once and born in another state. I had lost track of birth and marriage records some years ago along with SS card--disappeared during a remodel. It took awhile to gather all those documents to renew my drivers license (read ID, which is now required for voting where I live)--and I already had my existing drivers license to help obtain them. The birth certificate could only be ordered by mail, from a state that (btw) sends out drivers licenses by mail (which takes a few weeks) rather than issuing them at the DOT location. Then an appointment (started pre-covid because otherwise you could wait in line all day) which meant finding an open slot. It would have been much more complicated if I had not already had ID or if I had been married more than once. I have a friend who needed his birth certificate--from New Orleans--and I know he went for months trying (from out of state) with no luck.
You can cash a check in a small town where everyone knows you if that's where you live. In fact, I have cashed checks in the small town where my brother lives and where my parents lived when they were alive, because the lady at the grocery store started there when she was a teenager (we are about the same age). I only make it for a visit once a year but still can do it. There are older people who have had the same back account they started before ID requirements and who don't drive and, living in an area like that, have no need for a state ID. Native Americans have a particularly hard time, as reservation addresses often do not meet voter ID requirements. A lot of poor people move around a lot due to unstable housing. In North Dakota, Heidi Heitkamp won partly because there was a large turnout of Native American voters, who are a larger percentage of the population than many other states. When she ran again after the Kavanaugh business, upgraded voter ID requirements created huge problems for both college students and Native American voters, disenfranchising many of them. You can get benefits like food stamps without ID or birth certificate. Laws and regs allow programs to use other means of verifying identity for the very reason that ID documents may be lacking. And what happens if the wallet with the ID is lost or stolen shortly before the election? The time it can take to replace the ID can be longer than required for election certification even if you cast a provisional ballot. There are ample records in southern states especially demonstrating that the PURPOSE of voter ID laws and other restrictions was to limit black voting. |