• RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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      There is already a requirement for a picture ID in most places I know of.

      The requirements were a birth certificate or passport.

      A passport costs like $300 so poor people don’t have them.

      Birth certificates get lost pretty easily and take a really long time to replace.

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          I’m currently getting passports for my whole family and it’s more than $30 each for us so idk. It’s also been a pain in the ass to assemble all the documents one of those being the birth certificate mentioned above that I had to pay I think around $50 to get processed and copies of mailed to me.

          Also even if it is just $30 that’s too much. That’s like a poll tax to add this requirement. $30 isn’t a lot to you maybe but for some people it is and that means those people wouldn’t get to vote. Having money is not a requirement to vote.

          Plus adding that requirement now if that is the intention, would make it so people wouldn’t have time to get these documents in time to vote in the next election.

          All this to fix a non-existent issue.

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            A passport card is different from a passport (book).

            Sorry, but I think its completely reasonable to require an ID to vote at your local polling station. This should just be to confirm your identity though, not necessarily prove your citizenship status.

            All Americans should be registered to vote at birth. Registering to vote should also be part of the process to becoming a citizen for immigrants too.

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              Ok but what’s wrong with the drivers license we already use to confirm our identity? Why do we need to switch documents now? Makes no sense.

              Sorry but I just don’t see a reason to change something that isn’t broken

              And yes registering to vote is stupid they know you are eligible that should be enough. It should be automatic but that wasn’t even something they suggested doing

              The change isn’t to require ID. that change is to require a more obscure hard to come by ID so that less people can vote. They aren’t even hiding it. Why do you support that?