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What are the circumstances making it harder to vote?

This is all new to me. Since Eisenhower I have never heard of it being hard to vote and I have always been involved with elections. How has the laws changed about the right to vote? Each party has a list of volunteers to take people to the polls to vote and I have been one. So what is the problem surrounding not being able to vote for some.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    It is only harder for those who have no right to vote!

  • 8 years ago

    I am in England and can only tell you of perhaps a more gentle way of voting. We don't need ID to vote. Every year each household is sent a form to list all those 18 or who will be 18 by such a date and are British or Irish citizens. Then about 2 weeks before an election each voter is sent a card. They take this to the polling station and its checked by volunteers from each party. You are then given a slip with the candidates names on. You cross one and put it in a sealed box.

    We do have volunteers who take anyone old or disabled to the polling station. I would not have thought your system is that much different is it ?

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    There really are none. To purchase a firearm, you must have a photo ID and pass a federally mandated background check through any dealer, but to vote, just show up.

    I wish I could just show up at some sporting goods stores' and they'd give me a gun!

    Some ppl, all Dims, b**** about the fact that you can vote with a gun permit, but not a military ID. Well to answer that a military ID doesn't prove citizenship or residency, but to get a gun permit, you have to pass a background check!

    It's easy peasy to vote in our elections. The Dims have a record of disenfranchising our military from voting, since they tend to side with Republicans. They either send their absentee ballots out late, or they flagrantly sue to be able to suppress their votes. How patriotic is that, suing to keep the ppl in charge of your safety from participating in our democratic process? If anything they should sue YOU from being able to vote!

  • 8 years ago

    -limiting polling station hours is a big one.

    -requiring an ID that almost 10% of the voting population does not have and many of whom cannot obtain due to 9 districts in the state not having the offices to fill such requests(found in federal court with the lawsuit against PA new voting laws last election)

    -rolling back early voting. which was created due to long lines that discourage many working people from voting

    -making it so military IDs not an acceptable form of ID

    --FLA voting list purging

    list goes on and on of how republicans are trying to limit peoples votes

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Taylor has ingested a lot of coolaid. Honestly, we can't drive without an id. I can't borrow a library book, or even pick my child up early at school without an ID. Asking a person for an ID to vote is a no-brainer.

    Did you know that the Democrats asked for id to vote at the DNC? See the links below. Seems strange don't you think?

  • Dash
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    There is no problems. Everybody has the opportunity to vote. Liberals just enjoy making wild accusations of racism at every attempt to improve the system.

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