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Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by tablespoon on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:41AM (#30957451)
> It's simple: election margins are super slim right now, and Democrats are concerned that some sliver of their base--people too poor or busy or whatever to get an ID--will be disenfranchised as a result.

Which I tried to directly address in my comment (at least the busy part, and the too poor part can easily be addressed by having the agency I proposed pay the fees for the ID). It's a solvable problem, and solving it seems like it would be clearly in the public interest (for way more reasons than just voting).

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Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by JAlexoid on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:55AM (#30957741)
All you have to do is shut down a DMV in a poor neighborhood - and viola - you just have indirectly reduced the number of people without photo IDs.
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Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by tablespoon on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:14AM (#30958144)
> All you have to do is shut down a DMV in a poor neighborhood - and viola - you just have indirectly reduced the number of people without photo IDs.

I was imagining having an agency with people like a census-takers who would come to your home and handle whatever in-person stuff was necessary, which would make DMV locations a non-issue.

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