How is making people prove who they are by an id any citizen can get voter supression?

Blocking Back2021-04-07T02:41:11Z

It isn't.  Welcome to the revolution.

Anonymous2021-04-06T13:38:46Z

Selectively reducing resources to make a targeted group wait in much longer lines is voter suppression.

Anonymous2021-04-06T07:46:12Z

Only the GOP membership card will count, you can be sure.

Anonymous2021-04-05T04:28:51Z

It creates another hoop for people to jump through, and one that can keep them from voting by increasing friction.  The results aren't necessarily trivial either.  The current Governor of Georgia won his election by a margin of votes lower than the number of people who were kept from voting by that states law. 
Furthermore, your question assumes that getting an ID which satisfies the law is easy.  That's not always the case, particularly when lawmakers looking to disfranchise people try and make it harder.  For example, in Alabama they were going to close all of the DMV offices in nine of the ten counties with the highest black population in the state.  In Georgia the name on your ID must match exactly the name on your voter registration.  So if your ID says "John Smith" and your registration says "Jack Smith" you can't vote.  This may be particularly significant for people with non-Anglophone names, whose names might be mistranscribed by workers at a DMV or the elections office.  In South Dakota, the voter ID law required that your ID have a street address on it.  Why?  Because many Native Americans in the state, who tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, live in rural parts of reservations where they don't have home mail delivery, and thus don't have street addresses. 

The reality is that in literally every single case, these voter ID laws are motivated by voter suppression.  Republicans don't like that they're losing elections and since they're not willing to change in order to attract more votes, they need to try and "rig" the elections in their favor by making sure that the electorate favors them more. Voter ID is one tool to try and do that.  Sometimes, they've admitted it.  A Republican leader in Pennsylvania admitted that the entire purpose of the voter ID law was to allow Republicans to win the state. 

Anonymous2021-04-04T16:24:57Z

Take this to Politics.

While you're at it, ask yourself, "Why is it that the folks that are so in favor of voter ID laws are usually against gun registration?"

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