Comment by ada-h00k
16 days ago
I don't understand why ID cards with digital features aren't really a thing in the U.S. In many countries, such as Germany, there are ID cards that you can scan with an app to prove your identity. That makes it much harder for fraudsters to simply open bank accounts in other people's names.
I mean this is a country in which the question of Voter ID can be very controversial.
That’s the wrong framing.
In Germany every adult has to have an ID card. You cannot not have one. As a consequence requiring one for voting is practically unproblematic.
In the US the situation is fundamentally different plus there is a history of heinous racial targeted disenfranchisement of voters to consider that is in the extremely recent past and alive and well.
And what if germany turns authoritarian again? Unthinkable I know, but ID cards will only become a tool of oppression.
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