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Can somebody explain this to me?
For me to check out a library book, rent a dvd, pay for gas with a check. I must show a photo ID. If i am on my way home from work and come up on a police roadblock I must show a drivers license, proof of insurance and registration.
I don't understand why there is an argument against showing an ID to vote. I understand not everybody has a drivers license, but every state offers a state ID. Why is something as important as voting left up to the honor system?
Not singeling Preston out, but why are so many people allowed to vote by absentee ballot? Shouldn't that be reserved for people that actually can't go vote, like they are overseas, or in another state? Not just because they don't feel like driving there on election day?
5 Answers
- MarlaneLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
They should require proof of citizenship at the time anyone applies for a voter registration card. Then the voter registration cards need to be made with as much new technology..ID strip, thumbprint, hologram, picture, whatever..as a drivers license in order to make them difficult to fake. They should be free, as our voter registration cards are now. I think they would be worth the cost to taxpayers. The cards could be used to find "illegals"...since they won't have one. Ship their butts to the nearest border and save our country the hassle and expense they cause.
I don't mind showing my ID. I have nothing to hide.
- 1 decade ago
The argument is generally about disenfranchisement... the poor can't afford ID's, or can't access the resources to get a photo ID... that is total BS, even folks on welfare have ID's, they have to or they can't 'sign up', and often ID's are provided... as for the homeless, many do get ID's through various social service programs, and that can be expanded... and for those that don't, it is unlikely they do/would vote anyway.
It gets down to the 2 real issues... cost of expanding ID program, and sad to say, it would prevent fraudulent voting, and sadly, some folks want that to be possible... the cost is an inane issue... what cost is too much to protect our system, our way of life? Especially when the ID programs are already in play...
The fraud issue is disgusting, and a 'dirty little secret', but I wager the main obstacle to voter ID... why? Well, remember 'motor voter'? Funny, ensuring that anyone with a drivers license is registered to vote is okay, but using that same ID to vote isn't??? Oh wait, I forgot, a certain group thinks illegal immigrants should get drivers licenses!
Hmm, gee... I wonder why???
- 1 decade ago
Some/many of these requirements have been around for some time. People are used to them. The voter ID requirement is relatively new, and we are familiar with the term 'invasion of privacy'. This seems to be just one more 'invasion'. And one's vote is indeed personal. I, however, would have no problem showing my ID, which I don't do, because as a senior, I vote by absentee ballot.
- YepLv 61 decade ago
Look at who opposes the idea. It makes it easier for them to cheat and pad the vote with their entitlement monkeys.
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