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The Obvious Voting-Rights Solution That No Democrat Will Propose

hardhat
hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
edited August 2021 in Tug Tavern
Democrats in congress are considering a policy that was long unthinkable: a federal requirement that every American show identification before casting a ballot. But as the party tries to pass voting-rights legislation before the next election, it is ignoring a companion proposal that could ensure that a voter-ID law leaves no one behind—an idea that is as obvious as it is historically controversial. What if the government simply gave an ID card to every voting-age citizen in the country?

Voter-ID requirements are the norm in many countries, as Republicans are fond of pointing out. But so are national ID cards. In places such as France and Germany, citizens pick up their identity card when they turn 16 and present it once they’re eligible to vote. Out of nearly 200 countries across the world, at least 170 have some form of national ID or are implementing one, according to the political scientist Magdalena Krajewska...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/08/voting-rights-national-id-card/619772/

There's lots to unpack here.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    edited August 2021
    An ID card costs you like $10. It's not the cost that's the problem. Rather, it's that it hinders their ability to stuff ballot boxes.
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  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
    They'd have to backtrack on their ridiculous claims of racism and the fact that most of the world requires it, but on the other hand, I do see them embracing this soon.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,623 Founders Club
    Of course the left wants a national ID registry

    They just gave the Taliban the one from Afghanistan

    States run elections
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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,363
    edited August 2021
    Voter-ID requirements are the norm in many countries, as Republicans are fond of pointing out. But so are national ID cards.

    I've been saying this for years. Just provide everyone a national ID card.

    Which side of the aisle will most strongly object to that proposal?

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  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,295 Founders Club
    The IRS has the real teeth and could actually be useful. Require an Id # that is cross checked when taxes are filed. No ID on your form and your taxes aren’t considered filed. Since it’s required to file taxes, it’s no longer racist.
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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,363
    RaceBannon said:

    HHusky said:

    Voter-ID requirements are the norm in many countries, as Republicans are fond of pointing out. But so are national ID cards.

    I've been saying this for years. Just provide everyone a national ID card.

    Which side of the aisle will most strongly object to that proposal?

    RaceBannon said:

    Of course the left wants a national ID registry

    They just gave the Taliban the one from Afghanistan

    States run elections

    The side that aren’t fascist


    Squeal like a pig over free state ID

    Demand a national data base

    Fuck off
    When people aren't spending money they don't have in order to get "free state ID", you'll have a point.

    Till then . . .

    Fuck off
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  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
    edited August 2021

    Never doubt any government's ability to use something like this as a power grab, but more importantly, to fuck it up:

    The nightmare is a reality in India. Reports from the country suggest that the government’s national ID system — Aadhaar, which holds personal data belonging to more than one billion people — was compromised.

    On the slight positive side, the breach wasn’t down to hackers — at least on this occasion. The access hole was publicized after Indian newspaper The Tribune paid a man less than $10 in exchange for administration access to the database. Reporters from the paper were then given a username and password that allowed them to access information on any citizen by entering their 12-digit number.

    It gets worse. BuzzFeed tracked down the seller down — a man going by the pseudonym Anil Kumar — and he told the publication that The Tribune deal was just one of eight transactions that he made that week. Each time he sold access to the database for 500 INR, around $8, using a contact he had on WhatsApp to get the requirement admin name and password.

    “I paid Rs. 6,000 (approximately $95) to an anonymous person in a WhatsApp group I was a part of to create a username and password to the Aadhaar database for myself. I was told that I could then create as many usernames and passwords to access the database as I wanted. I sold each of them to make my Rs. 6,000 back,” Kumar told BuzzFeed.

    In response to the situation, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party took a line right out of President Trump playbook, calling reports of a breach “fake news.”
    https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/04/indias-national-id-database-is-reportedly-accessible-for-less-than-10/
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