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Originally Posted by lcjjdnh
They tend to disenfranchise voters such as the elderly and poor, who don't otherwise have IDs (usually because they don't drive). Voter ID laws would, presumably, be much less objectionable if voting-age citizens were made well aware of the requirement and a concerted effort was made to provide them with free, government issued IDs.
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Originally Posted by sterlingice
I think the argument is because almost every ID has a fee associated with it so it's not actually free
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Originally Posted by JPhillips
Easily available is another problem. Look at what they tried to do in Wisconsin. After the voter ID law was passed the DMV proposed closing offices in highly Dem areas and opening new offices in highly GOP areas.
Most of the voter ID movement is just a way to make it harder for likely Dem voters.
edit: And you have to look at it in conjunction wit efforts to make registering more difficult, eliminating same day registration and limiting early voting.
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Maybe I am more intimate with because it is my home state, or my local precinct was the center of a hotbed last election but for hose not up to speed.
SC's law was a totally free ID and the state was even going to provide free transportation to the nearest location at a time convenient to the applicant for those unregistred. For those over 65 they were going to offer to produce the IDs in home.
My local precinct has 102 registred voters. I know them all by name.
At the 2008 election 7 Chartered buses (all with out of state plates) pulled up to our precinct to vote and the State Special Law Enforcement Division had to be brought in to remove them after they refused to leave.
Tell me again why this should be legal.