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Originally Posted by MCBNY
It's the principle of discouraging people to vote.
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If you are discouraged from voting because you cannot legitimately prove you are who you claim you are, the obvious answer IMO is that you're NOT in fact who you claim you are.
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So now we want to further limit the amount of people who can vote? How unAmerican.
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Having to prove you are who you claim you are only limits the vote to those legally allowed to vote.
I'm curious, why is registration ok (you will be turned away if not registered), but voter ID regs aren't?
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And you all know what this law is about at its core. Discouraging blacks and Hispanics from voting.
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Are you a racist?
Do you truly believe that blacks and hispanics are less capable of obtaining an ID in today's day and age in America?
Because to claim it disproprtionately affects these minorities, you must at the core believe them, as a sterotypical whole, to be less able to negotiate the task of going to Govt. Office, filling in form, and getting an ID.
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Did you know that there have been only 10 instances (or something miniscule) of counterfeit/illegal voting since 2000?
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Tell me, if checking ID is forbidden, how can you know there are "only ten cases" where someone voted for someone other than who they are?
Seems somewhat obvious that not checking ID would mean verification on any broad scale that all votes cast were legitimate would be rather difficult.
Have you ever been called up by the State after an election, for them to check you voted, where, and who you voted for, so they could "validate" that your vote was cast by you?
No, me either. Because it doesn't happen.
There are no cases, because there is no verification to create such cases.