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Originally Posted by AOE-7
I still don't understand why people are so against voter IDs. I'm not being a punk here.... I just don't get it. If you are a legal US citizen, you should have an ID to prove it.
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Many people don't have ID's. Obtaining them takes time and money.
Also, there is a chicken-and-egg scenario in which an adult who doesn't have an ID attempts to obtain ID and is asked for....ID.
Many people who grew up in poverty don't have birth certificates. Almost half of women don't own a birth certificate with their current legal name on it. Further, even if you DO have one, the idea of using a birth certificate or social security card to obtain a photo ID doesn't even make any sense, does it? At least not any more sense than checking a signature at a polling place.
Given that voter fraud is almost non-existent in the US, ID requirements are clearly calculated to disenfranchise specific groups of voters.
http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/d...file_39242.pdf
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