Why would we make it easy for citizens to vote, am I right?
Could you legitimately explain this? I keep hearing that, but as far as I can tell, it’s not harder than:
ID: Buying alcohol, cigarettes?
Register: Free, fill out stupid card?
Prov identity: Get financing, open bank account, drive car - nope you don’t get arrested for not having license anymore? This list is way harder than voting.
Why is voting hard?
They look at my drivers license and then I p ress buttons.
I don’t even have to be sane, educated one way or another, sober, etc.
Poor people often don’t have IDs and it’s a lot more expensive than “free” since it requires time and transportation to get them. They also may no longer have the documents needed to get an ID.
Or if you’d prefer a longer analysis-
https://www.mapresearch.org/file/MAP-Identity-Documents-report-2022.pdf
But I suppose poor people don’t deserve to vote.
So when I read this, don’t think: “Let’s stop ID’ing people when they buy alcohol or weed” (someday), but instead I think: “Why aren’t IDs free!?”
If it’s critical and a civil need to ID people for all sorts of valid reasons, then it should be free/tax funded.
I’d rather tax money cover something like IDs than hear agreements about trying to restrict fraud. If you want to prevent voter fraud, eliminate reasons that allow the conditions to persist.
Thanks for the read. I do t have an easy idea for the time. Indiana BMV was massively improved a while ago. Maybe we need more of that. There’s probably no getting around taking the time to establish identity or dealing with stupid documents. We have to start somewhere.
…or the government records your DNA at birth, then we’re good. - j/k, that would scare everyone into rage and riots 🙃
