Comment by varsketiz
17 days ago
A google search tells me that around half of people in the USA do not hold a passport. Domestically most people rely on drivers licence as their ID.
17 days ago
A google search tells me that around half of people in the USA do not hold a passport. Domestically most people rely on drivers licence as their ID.
> Domestically most people rely on drivers licence as their ID
So show your drivers license at the voting booth? Why is that unacceptable?
Any form of ID held by the average voter will be unacceptable to the GOP, because it won't limit voting access from the people they don't want voting.
That doesn't explain why democrat run states like California can't have a sensible voter ID law that accepts such identifications?
If they just said "accept more IDs" instead of "stop voter ID requirements" people wouldn't think its a problem, but that isn't what democrats are saying.
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I don't think a driver license is a valid voting id in the US, because you don't have to be a citizen to get one.
When you show your id they check if you are allowed to vote, the id is just to identify you as a person it doesn't mean everyone with an id gets to vote.
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Not everyone has drivers licenses, especially poorer folks, especially minorities. The requirements for drivers IDs are now to get RealIDs and some of these folks don't have access to things like birth certificates and other requirements of getting a RealID.
There's also additional requirements of your gender matching your ID (which eliminates many transgender folks), your name matching on all documents (good luck if you're a married woman), etc.
Folks are rightly pointing out that these laws are engineered to suppress votes, and you seem to not be willing to listen to understand why.
> Folks are rightly pointing out that these laws are engineered to suppress votes, and you seem to not be willing to listen to understand why.
Are you saying democrats will engineer these laws to suppress votes? Is that why democrats don't have voter id laws? The GOP isn't relevant here, we are just wondering why democrat states can't seem to do this.
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