I’m really not dramatically opposed to voter IDs. I find signature
Verifications on an iPad, which is what they used in NY this year, to be a joke.
The devil is in the details on how IDs work. And you hit the crux of my disagreement with you and many repubs - I don’t think we ever hit the point where the act of voting should require “effort”. Or more accurately, it should not require more effort of the poorest constituent than it does the richest. Voting should be encouraged.
We should be looking for ways to make it as easy as possible. Obviously fraud should not be - but the fact is, new anti-fraud measures in our elections, especially our national elections, are a solution in search of a problem that has never been shown to exist, in spite of incredibly exhaustive efforts to show it does, especially in the last 2 elections. And multiple non-partisan studies that show it does not exist in anywhere close to levels that can have an impact. Again, numbers tend to be - around 1 out of every 1 million ballots cast may be a problem. And not even all those wind up being actual problems.
You’re right, we won’t agree about 2020. I will always consider it an enormous success under incredibly difficult circumstances. The only people who think of it as a clusterfuck are ardent Trumpies who lost, and got no traction in a 3 month effort to steal it. [Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 05/14/2021 5:19PM]
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