Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign
by lliamander on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:04PM
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> Voting is a right, driving/flying/etc are not. Getting a driver's license is more about certifying your ability to drive than your identity.
Bearing arms is also a right, and yet there are all sorts of restrictions on the exercise of that right.
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign
by craftinator on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:46PM
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The defining characteristic of "Democracy" is that everyone gets to vote.
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign
by kangaroozach on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:21AM
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In the case of voting it doesn’t matter the identity of the voter. It just matters that they are in fact eligible to vote in that district and are indeed only voting once.
Without some form of ID or some one-time-use voucher that can only be obtained by eligible voters, how could anyone trust the veracity of the system? Honor system? Seems weak.
- Voting is a right, driving/flying/etc are not. Getting a driver's license is more about certifying your ability to drive than your identity.
- Signature requirements are tricky because they are very subjective. You're counting on the unbiased assessment of thousands of volunteers to determine if signatures match. That doesn't make it racist, but it's easy to imagine a poll worker intentionally or unintentionally disenfranchising valid voters. So the key question is, does it actually reduce voter fraud by more than the false negative rate?
Everywhere I've lived, the voter rolls and the voting process are designed in such a way that adding a free voter ID to the process would change very little. It's already very difficult to orchestrate fraud without detection.
The ACLU put out a fact sheet with some more details on voter ID: https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-...