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Re:CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality by boomboomsubban on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:20AM (#33105415)
Unless accompanied by a national free US ID, a voter ID law is an unconstitutional poll tax. Nobody should need to pay to vote.

And as another poster mentioned, a national free ID is unpopular with sections of both major parties.

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Re:CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality by water8 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:43AM (#33105598)
So we can make a vaccine card for every person, but we can’t print a freaking ID? These arguments against voter ID are so pedantically stupid I just wanna slap people.
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Re:CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality by boomboomsubban on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:05AM (#33105718)
>So we can make a vaccine card for every person, but we can’t print a freaking ID?

We can, there isn't the political will to do so as many people oppose a national ID.

>These arguments against voter ID are so pedantically stupid I just wanna slap people.

"It's unconstitutional" is pedantically stupid? How so?

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Re:CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality by lalaland1125 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:36AM (#33108747)
Vaccine cards aren't authenticated or secured in any way. They are literally just little cards with text ...
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