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A comment on Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny. Parent comment

Re:Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny by dragonwriter on Monday October 03, 2016 @04:29PM (#12631041)
> If that's really stopping people from voting, then there's something wrong with our DMVs, etc.

Sure. But sometimes, it seems like the "something wrong with our DMVs" isn't a separate problem, but a fairly deliberate effort to exploit the danger directly created by adding the functioning of the DMV as a dependency in the electoral process. [0]

[0] e.g., http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/alabama-dmv-closings-draw-call-fe...

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Re:Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny by snowwrestler on Monday October 03, 2016 @05:07PM (#12631322)
We need to hold our state legislators accountable for doing their job. They know how hard it is for some citizens to get the mandated IDs, and if they don't, they should.
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Re:Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny by dragonwriter on Monday October 03, 2016 @05:09PM (#12631341)
> We need to hold our state legislators accountable for doing their job.

Its harder to do that when they are directly making it harder for people who tend to disagree with them to vote at all.

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