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Re:How a U.S. citizen was mistakenly targeted for deportatio... by rdtsc on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:21PM (#15821442)
> It can be used as a tool for voter suppression if not done correctly.

I can see that somewhat but voter ID requirements and legislation in specific states can already be used for it. A free national ID would make it easier and would even fix or prevent abuses from individual states.

Besides if countries like India, which have more corruption, more poverty and fight with such issues like open defecation can manage to provide IDs to more than 95% of its population (and some states have close to 100%) surely we can do it as well.

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Re:How a U.S. citizen was mistakenly targeted for deportatio... by morganvachon on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:25PM (#15821457)
In the past I would have agreed that state-level voter suppression was more likely, but this administration is pure evil and would potentially be far worse given that kind of power.
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