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Originally Posted by kane
The problem with these laws isn't the ID requirements (for the most part). As I stated above most of them allow for you get a free ID if you can't afford it. I was reading today that the Texas law will give you a free ID if you can't afford it. They estimated that 1.4 million people would be affected by the law yet only about a dozen people have actually asked for an ID. It's not about the ID. It's about the other stuff that goes with it.
The old saying is that cigarette isn't something that allows you to smoke tobacco. It is a delivery system for nicotine. The ID section of the voter laws is just the package that the rest of the crap is sold to you in. Many of these laws include things like reducing days/hours of early voting, restricting days when you an register and not allowing people to vote anywhere but at their assigned precinct. There is no good reason to change any of these things except to use them as a method to reduce voter turnout.
In a time when we are constantly talking about ways to get more people to vote and how important voting is, we should not be passing laws that restrict how and when you can vote simply because it benefits one party.
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I'm too lazy to look into the details or specifics you mention and do not doubt it, however, i'd say that any discussion i've ever heard on the subject (including this forum) has been about the undo hardship the requirement places on people with respect to simply getting an ID at all. What you're saying simply seems to be a more credible angle on the issue rather than the first real argument that its just too difficult for people to get ID's. To believe you, would mean accepting that everyone is 100% fine with a requirement for having an ID as a sole issue and any other details could simply be stricken from a bill and then would pass with great expediency, which absolutely is not the case.