Even our resident liberals KNOW deep down that it is asinine not to require ID to vote, it just so happens to help their cause so they don’t care. Their programming requires they ignore the obvious and to go to the trusty fallback plan and deem it racist. Much like the “rich need to pay their fair share” completely false narrative, It is a simple yet effective strategy, particularly on gullible, ignorant, brainwashed people.
What states don't require an ID to vote? I know here in Maine we do not, but we really don't need one way up here...
How does presenting a govt issued photo id at the polling place stop any voter fraud?
What's the purpose?
Please explain what fraud a govt photo id of people already vetted and registered to vote stops?
A voter ID can prevent someone from voting multiple times since the voter rolls can then be verified and bogus IDs removed from the rolls.
Ever hear of the old Cook County mantra "vote early - vote often"?
You can't vote multiple times in person.
You can only vote in the precinct you are registered in, when you vote, your name is marked as voted.
If you had already sent in an absentee ballot, then your name is marked as voted in your precinct voter roll, and you will not be able to vote in person.
There have been CHECKS in place, in election law, for decades that prevents double voting....kyzr!!
Even if you show up in a precinct that is not yours, they will give you a provisional ballot, which they will check to see if you voted in person or absentee already, before counting the provisional ballot.
And without photo, or at the minimum strict non-photo, id you can vote multiple times as multiple people, as long as the persons you are impersonating haven't voted yet.
Hard for a dead person to beat you to their vote.
Do you have a single case where this happened?
Ballots have been mailed in to the New York City Board of Elections in the name of dead voters, The Post has learned. Records show that the elections board received an absentee ballot from a France…
nypost.com
Again, what is it with the inability to do a simple search around here?
Even our resident liberals KNOW deep down that it is asinine not to require ID to vote, it just so happens to help their cause so they don’t care. Their programming requires they ignore the obvious and to go to the trusty fallback plan and deem it racist. Much like the “rich need to pay their fair share” completely false narrative, It is a simple yet effective strategy, particularly on gullible, ignorant, brainwashed people.
What states don't require an ID to vote? I know here in Maine we do not, but we really don't need one way up here...
How does presenting a govt issued photo id at the polling place stop any voter fraud?
What's the purpose?
Please explain what fraud a govt photo id of people already vetted and registered to vote stops?
A voter ID can prevent someone from voting multiple times since the voter rolls can then be verified and bogus IDs removed from the rolls.
Ever hear of the old Cook County mantra "vote early - vote often"?
You can't vote multiple times in person.
You can only vote in the precinct you are registered in, when you vote, your name is marked as voted.
If you had already sent in an absentee ballot, then your name is marked as voted in your precinct voter roll, and you will not be able to vote in person.
There have been CHECKS in place, in election law, for decades that prevents double voting....kyzr!!
Even if you show up in a precinct that is not yours, they will give you a provisional ballot, which they will check to see if you voted in person or absentee already, before counting the provisional ballot.
You're ridiculously naĂŻve, maybe you need to get out of Maine more often?
I'm not naive, I'm just not ignorant of the election procedures in place, as you guys are....
You mean the election procedures and laws that were trampled on by leftists installed in state governments around the country, you will believe the worst of any conservative, but your fellow leftists are lily white and would never do anything underhanded, right? You wear blinders, and until you take them off nothing you say can be taken with any seriousness. To believe that requiring ID to vote is 'racist' is both ridiculous and naĂŻve, it's also racist in an of itself since you believe that POC either can't afford ID or are too stupid to obtain it. Why don't you try going into a predominant minority neighborhood and poll them and ask them if they have ID or not and see how they look at you like you're an idiot. Do you think POC don't have bank accounts, they don't do personal business every day just like you do? They don't travel, go on vacation, buy alcohol? You're the one sitting in your lily white tower looking down on POC like they're a bunch of brainless morons who can't even do the most basic thing needed to move about in a civilized society. Who exactly are you worrying about when it comes to not have an ID to vote? The poor, or is it only POC?
You naively support anything your party leaders tell you....
There was not any impersonation fraud taking place at the polling places, that a govt issued photo ID was needed in order to stop it.
What part of that, is hard for you to understand?
Why do you so naively trust your Republican legislators? This measure was created by them, to give themselves an advantage at the voting booth, and for no other reason.
Only 35% of 18 and 19 year olds have a drivers licence..... Guess what, silly one.....who does this age demographic primarily vote for at the voting booth? Do you think your republican legislators didn't know that, before they created their voter I'd laws?
Voters in the 50 to 69 demographic had drivers licences already....about 94% of all eligible to drive...
The statistics show that Democratic leaning citizens were more likely to be the ones going through hoops to get a DMV licence or ID.
REPUBLICANS ARENT STUPID...the legislators knew exactly what they were doing.
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The Justice Department notified the commonwealth of Virginia on Monday night that it would not object to its new voter ID law. The Virginia requirement...
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The Justice Department notified the commonwealth of Virginia on Monday night that it would not object to its
new voter ID law. The Virginia requirement is just the latest such law
at the center of a heated debate leading up to the 2012 election, with Republicans generally supporting the laws as a means to prevent voter fraud, while Democrats allege that the laws will disenfranchise minorities, who less often have valid IDs. Why do minorities have fewer IDs?
Because a lot of minorities don’t have much use for them. The most common voter ID is a driver’s license, and minorities are less likely to drive. A 2007 study found that in California, New Mexico, and Washington, whites were more likely to have driver’s licenses than nonwhites. In Orange County, Calif., about 92 percent of white voters had driver’s licenses, compared with
only 84 percent of Latino voters and 81 percent of “other” voters. A 2005 study of Wisconsin similarly found that while about 80 percent of white residents had licenses,
only about half of African-American and Hispanic residents had licenses.
Minorities are less likely to have driver’s licenses because they are more likely to be poor and to live in urban areas. If you can’t afford a car, or if you don’t need one because you take the bus or subway, you are less likely to have a driver’s license. Students are less likely to have driver’s licenses for the same reasons (plus the fact that they can sometimes rely on student IDs, and may just have not gotten around to getting a driver’s license yet). Moreover, minorities may be more likely to have lost their driver’s licenses: The Wisconsin study found that an estimated 8 percent of Hispanic adults and 17 percent of African-American adults had no current license but had a recent suspension or revocation. Almost half of suspended driver’s licenses were due to failure to pay outstanding fines, which may explain why poor people are less likely to have licenses.
Driver’s licenses are not the only accepted forms of identification, but minorities may face extra challenges in securing other legally valid IDs. Passports, military IDs, and other government-issued photo ID are generally accepted, and some states accept student ID cards from state universities. Texas accepts concealed-weapons licenses, but New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice points out that African-Americans are also less likely to have these concealed-gun permits. For voters who need to secure a valid ID, tracking down the necessary documents—such as a birth certificate and social security card—can take time and money, and the Brennan Center additionally reports that
many voting centers are far away from minority voters and are rarely open. Minorities also move from state to state more frequently, which makes meeting varying requirements for documentation more difficult, and Hispanics often use different naming customs, which can make for additional confusion at the DMV or voting booth. Additionally, the Brennan Center suggests that
minority voters are more likely to be carded at the polls.
Of course, minority voters aren’t the only group likely to be disenfranchised. Seniors, for example, are also less likely to drive. Academic studies suggest that voter ID laws do probably reduce turnout, both among Democrats and Republicans, but
not by more than about 2 percent.
More info on it;
Hedges & Company released an updated analysis in May 2025 showing there are 242,293,175 licensed drivers in the US.
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