Why is it racist to require voter ID?

Because they tend to have a disparate impact on people of color. Anti-discrimination law in the United States has two different elements to it. One is desperate intent. This is what we tend to think about when we think about race policies. It's something like the old Jim Crow laws in the South which were intended specifically to Target people of color. There's also a notion of disparate impact. This is when there may not be any specific racist intent on the part of the framers of the law or policy. However, if the policy has a greater impact on people of One race than the other it may be illegally discriminatory. Both of those can apply here. In some cases, voter ID laws are specifically tailored with racist intent. For example, in North Carolina, the Federal court which struck down part of the voter ID law found that the Republicans in the legislature had sought out information on forms of ID which were popular among African-Americans and excluded many of those from qualifying under the state's voter ID law. The reason for doing this is because people of color tend to vote heavily democratic. About nine out of ten African Americans vote Democratic in any election. The numbers for Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans are somewhat lower but all of these groups still vote overwhelmingly democratic. So attempts to Target people of color are done as a way to try and reduce the power of democratic voters. In other cases, there may not be an explicit intent to Target People based on their race but these policies often do have a disproportionate impact on people of color. Because of various lost any policies, people of color may be more organized, and must have less access to Automobiles and need for a driver's license. They are also often disproportionately poor meaning that they may have fewer resources to obtain an ID...Show more

Generally speaking, low income and minorities are too ignorant to know how to vote correctly.
And yet, there is no excuse for them to be ignorant.
Public libraries are free to use.
Most of those low income and minorities are very easily swayed by corrupt and partisan media.

Much of their ignorance is due to laziness more than anything.

Voter ID has nothing to do with racism or income level.
If you cannot prove you are a US Citizen then you have no right to vote. It is that simple....Show more

It isn't and it isn't Racist to have a law that makes Electioneering illegal either.

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Each state has some form of restriction on political activities near polling places when voting is taking place.
These restrictions usually include limiting the display of signs, handing out campaign literature or soliciting votes within a pre-determined distance (typically 50 to 200 feet) of a polling place. Some states also address what apparel voters can wear within polling places (read NCSL's blog on the electioneering apparel case that made it to the Supreme Court).
This webpage provides a breakdown of prohibitions in each state. Here is a summary:
15 states prohibit campaign apparel/buttons/stickers/placards
37 states prohibit campaign materials/signs/banners/literature
28 States prohibit influencing voters/soliciting votes/political persuasion
17 states prohibit circulating petitions/soliciting signatures
9 states prohibit projecting sounds referring to candidates/issues
6 states prohibit polls/exit polls
9 states prohibit loitering
3 states prohibit peddling/advertising
10 states prohibit voter intimidation/interfering with voter
10 states prohibit obstructing entrance/hindering voter
https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/electioneering.aspx...Show more

Racism is just an excuse to cover up the cheating they want to do....Show more

The left is so bent that they call it Crow on steroids. All it is factually is Georgia's law makes it easier to vote and harder to cheat. < That ticks off the left. Georgia issues FREE state ID's, what's the problem?...Show more