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knaq | 5 years ago
It's just plain racist to suggest that black citizens don't have ID. It is required for guns, which are actually a constitutional right unlike voting for president. It is required to buy beer, rent an apartment, use most government benefits, or get a job. It's even required to enter many campaign events for democrats! So, that doesn't sound like good faith at all.
Funding the ID is fine. Some bullshit election ID card is no good. It needs to meet the normal standard, as specified by the Real ID Act of 2005. The US passport would be acceptable; let's make those free. The military ID would be acceptable.
Say, want to bias it against republicans who never travel to foreign countries? Make a US passport the only valid identification. I'm fine with that.
nl|5 years ago
You are right that many people believe it did. And that's a huge, huge problem.
Can you explain any evidence at all that would convince you?
knaq|5 years ago
As I wrote above, for future elections:
"Ink the fingers, since we're 3rd-world now. Have ID, just like India and Mexico do. All votes must be cast in person. Take extra pictures when voting (face, fingerprints, iris, retina), to better enable prosecution of misbehavior. No machine goes on a network. Every machine is observed by multiple unrelated people (don't know each other) for the entire time, starting from verification that it is empty and continuing until all recounts are completed. No excuses."
There was no legitimate excuse for destroying what little election security we had. You wouldn't have done that if you wanted to hold a valid election, but you wanted to "win" at any cost.
Some ominous words slipped out of Biden's mouth when speaking to voters in Michigan: "I don't need you to get me elected!"