And proof of citizenship is undue burden that violates your constitutional rights.
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ONLY because the US makes ID cards some bizarre expensive thing.
Canada: bring your health card or driver license or passport. Present it when you get to the volunteer who crosses your name off the list and gives you the paper ballot so you can mark an x.
It's only a big impairment in America because they needed to somehow make it so. It's baffling.
It's only a big impairment in America because they needed to somehow make it so. It's baffling.
I genuinely can't tell if you are being sarcastic, but making voting difficult in US is intentional.
I've actually seen some arguments that requiring ID for voting would be legal if it were easy to acquire and free. Of course, the politicians arguing for ID requirements also oppose any attempt to make ID free.
And if they were able to pass something requiring ID, their next target would be making it difficult or impossible to get IDs in liberal areas.
Canada: bring your health card or driver license or passport
Or library card, blood donor card, credit card, a bank statement, a cheque stub from the government, a tax return assessment...the list is long.
Can we just stop pretending that this is even remotely an issue. The Right wants us all to debate this topic and keep it constantly in the news not because they actually think it's an issue either, but because it's yet another law they can in bad faith exploit to divide, confuse, and disenfranchise people.
We already have laws for this, and they work. End of story.
The only reason people debate whether or not this is an issue is because bad faith actors get conservative media to tell people that this fake problem is real.
The data has never supported their argument, and when you point that out, they fall back to their old counter arguments of a) a couple random cases out of millions, and b) “there must be corruption, because I live in an echo chamber, I only know people who vote like me, and I can’t imagine that my views are not shared by the broader population.”
Trump merrily ignores court.
I'm sure they'll be consequences for TurdNugget this time.
Any second now. Anyyyyy seconddddd now, or now. You just wait, it'll happen. Very soon. Maybe now? Or now? Nnnnnnnnoooooowww?
You wait and see, just wait....
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NOW? no, ok, well it'll deffo happen soon.
It's not something he can ignore, because he doesn't run the elections, the states do. This just lets blue states ignore his order.
Halts? It is coming back and hell gut women voters so his 2028 merch can sell for him to run again.
Hey Americans, just establish a national identity document already. Belgium, Spain, Germany, Greece and other European countries that are definitely not tyrannies have them. It will fix so many of your problems.
That's strongly opposed by the same people who want to require proof of citizenship and identification to vote