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Soon you'll need a passport to vote thanks to republicans.
Can't wait for lemmy to start blaming poor people for not being able to afford to vote.
You need proof of identity to vote in Canada. Doesn't feel wrong.
Of course no one needs a passport, but you do need something.
You need it in the US too... you cant just rock up to a voting booth and put in your vote. You have to have your State ID, Drivers License, or Passport ready to show, and it has to be checked against the voter roll (which you register for when you get your ID) to make sure youre eligible to vote.
The thing is that a majority of people in the US dont have passports. A majority of people in the US never even leave their own state, so they dont need one.
A passport is expensive and difficult to obtain when compared with most other forms of ID, and more importantly, the issuing of passports is controlled at the federal (read: trump-controlled) level. Passports can be revoked pretty much arbitrarily.
You need paid identification to vote in many countries. And they're by and large not fascist shitholes, voter suppression is just another excuse by the American people. The truth is USA is how the majority wants it to be.
For real, I have no fucking idea what people in Britain and the US talk about when it's all the end of democracy for demanding proper ID at the voting booth. You think you can vote without ID in Scandinavia?
Not saying voter suppression is not happening with the gerrymandering and restrictions to voting by mail, but from Sweden the ID grievance is a bit bewildering.
WE ALREADY HAVE TO HAVE ID TO VOTE, what do you think voter registration is? In every single state you have to, get this, register to vote. You don't just walk into a polling station and just say give me a ballot. No they certify your citizenship BEFOREHAND. THAT'S WHY PEOPLE ARE ON THE VOTER ROLLS TO BEGIN WITH!
Sounds maddening and inefficient. I still don't see a problem with requiring proper ID when casting the ballot.
It's not inefficient, they check that you are a citizen before it's even time to vote You don't need to prove anything at the voting location generally. Because how much of a hassle would it be if you had to prove you're a citizen the day you go to vote? Can you imagine how long that would take? It's like pre-registering for anything.
Its required. You hand them your driver's license (photo ID) when you walk in.
In the US?
Yes
Then I have a really hard time seeing what the problem is.
The problem is too many women and minorities vote for the opposite party so they want to make laws that take away their rights without explicitly saying that is what they are doing.
You have a really hard time listening to anything but your singular republican "I don't see what's so wrong about providing ID" talking point.
The problem you're ignoring every time you paste that reddit republican shit is that republicans are trying to restrict what ID counts as a proper ID and have selected passports. Since they're a federal ID instead of a state ID, the trump-controlled federal government can restrict how they're issued. And selectively revoke them from people that republicans don't want voting.
Plus, they're expensive and time consuming to get. It's a de facto poll tax, and I'm sure you have a talking point about how poll taxes aren't so bad either.
I'll spell it out for you. I am not glued to yankee media. So no, I'm not reiterating "Republican talking points" or "pasting" from them. I'm just reacting to what I'm reading in this thread and what I've seen from some British media which has a similar discussion.
LOL. Insufferable. Bye.
Republican talking points don't politely stop at the water's edge. British media will happily print them.
See a therapist, man.
American. Can't afford to. Thanks for the ableist insult.
I gathered as much. I'm just saying not everyone you talk to on the internet is American. It's not the default. I'm writing to you in my third language. I have no obligation to follow your media cycle.
But regardless. I know that access to health care is limited for lots of Americans, and it was not my intention to be hurtful.
It's clear that republican propaganda has made its way to you anyway. You repeat it without a second thought.
You dismissed what I was saying by calling it mental illness. I can't see how that could have been intended as anything other than gaslighting and abuse.
The trouble you're having is that you're jumping to ridiculous and unhinged accusations. If you look at this very thread, I immediately changed my mind when a user pointed out that you already need photo ID for voting. But you just can't let it go. So "you" have won the political argument, I've conceded like 15 comments ago. That's the part where I think this goes beyond normal political outrage for a legitimate issue, and has probably crossed over into something that's affecting you and your relationships on a personal level. I do not mean this as an ad hominem although I phrased it in an unhelpful way.
More gaslighting.
Your response when someone pointed out that you already need an ID was:
That's not changing your mind. That's telling people who are upset at the attempt to disenfranchise voters that they're upset about nothing.
You need it in the US too... you cant just rock up to a voting booth and put in your vote. You have to have your State ID, Drivers License, or Passport ready to show, and it has to be checked against the voter roll (which you register for when you get your ID) to make sure youre eligible to vote.
The thing is that a majority of people in the US dont have passports. A majority of people in the US never even leave their own state, so they dont need one.
The requirements for what constitutes an acceptable ID keep tightening. And if you have to pay for an ID in order to vote, that's a poll tax. Which I'm sure you don't have a problem with either, since your country doesn't have a history of using them to oppress minorities.
LMAO I have no idea what you're on about. Sami and Tornedalings would laugh in your face if you presented this argument.
Maybe there are legitimate grievances for what should count as proper ID and how you can acquire them, I don't know, I'm not that much in tune with this part of American politics. But I find it very hard to believe that the requirement of biometric/photo ID is the real problem. If it is genuinely so difficult to acquire a proper ID, then you should probably work on that issue instead of the idea of requiring them for voting.
The proposed law requires a passport. With a name that matches your birth certificate, first and last, even if you're married.
Stop spreading republican talking points.
I don't even know what Republican talking points are. I'm commenting from a Scandinavian perspective in which a photo/biometric ID plus your voter card that gets mailed to your address is required to vote.
I'm not saying that the proposed legislagion is good or bad. I'm saying that if it genuinely is difficult for Americans to acquire proper ID then that's a deeper problem that you should address first.
You need IDs to vote in the US as well. Most people register to vote when they get their ID, and for most people, that is your Driver's License or State ID card. Those already have your information.
The issues here are they are tightening the ID requirements. Most people in the US dont have passports. In addition, the changes they are making require you to have the passport match your birth certificate. If you get married and take your spouse's last name, and have that on your passport, you now do not have a valid voter ID.
This is an easy way to wipe off quite a lot of women, minorities, and poor people from the voting rolls.
Right, I get it. You have photo IDs (supposedly with chips?) but that's not necessarily enough to prove citizenship. What should be enough for voting is a voter's card coupled with the photo ID. And it sounds like that's what you have now.
The ID that we currently have specifically do prove citizenship and your eligibility to vote. And again, are checked against the voter registration roll.
If that's the case then there really shouldn't be any reason to complicate it further.
Which is why republicans are complicating it further. And why you're defending their actions.