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Thanks for the smile, Dan!

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Republicans abuse voter ID laws to affect minority and Democratic communities. Voter ID itself is not inherently bad, the American version of it is.

John, do you just say stuff to be saying it? What does this mean..."Voter ID itself is not inherently bad, the American version of it is." ?

The first sentence explains it.

The way other countries with voter ID do it is: automatic registration, and automatic free ID sent to all those registered.
Not doing something like that? Don't do voter ID.

I'm looking forward to voting in five or six states at the next election.

I mean, I may not be a citizen of the United States but asking me to prove I am is "racist" and "undemocratic", amirite?

Doesn't happen.

Every other Western country - including all the ones with non-suppressive voter ID laws - have a national electoral roll, preventing the possibility of being registered in more than one place. They also have a single national set of laws governing national elections.

So you're not interested in voting being as easy as possible, even though it quite effectively minimises the possibility of fraud?
Thank God you're not making the laws.

You are quite dexterously evading my point, which is that without some sort of ID I could vote in as many states as I could visit during election day - WITHOUT EVEN BEING A CITIZEN!

I am not interested in making cheating as easy as possible, even though it quite effectively maximizes the number of votes for your party.

Thank whatever powers there be you're not making the laws.

Do ID the way other countries do, and establish more polling booths to get rid of lines and have easily accessible early & mail in voting, and hardly anyone will complain.

And you're ignoring a key point: voter fraud is extremely rare, and never affects the results.

How do you know, if you don't ID voters??

No evidence of anything more than a handful.

So why not weed them out, if your side stands to gain from it?

They usually are, otherwise I wouldn't have heard of them.

Sure, you won't find evidence if you don't search for it. Still makes sense to ensure that only people eligible to vote actually do vote, and that they only vote once.

A solution in search of a problem.

You really don't want to check that voters have the right to vote, do you?

No. Because you know it is YOUR party that will suffer from these checks.

Considering that just about all of the handful of cases have been Republican...