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Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by kelnos on Monday December 05, 2022 @04:12PM (#33871992)
I am usually very agreeable toward arguments of the form "all of Europe does X, so it's ridiculous to assume the US can't too". This is one of the cases where that's not true. ID requirements have been used for centuries in the US to disenfranchise various groups of voters. That's fact. If you know of a specific way to enforce strong ID requirements while somehow changing culture and politics dramatically for a huge swath of people such that this disenfranchisement stops being a problem, by all means, please let us know. Otherwise, your idea will not work.
Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by phpisthebest on Monday December 05, 2022 @08:14PM (#33874547)
>>you know of a specific way to enforce strong ID requirements

Do you know of any state that even has or is proposing "strong ID requirements" in the first place, because most of the Voter ID Laws I have seen passed have very very weak ID Requirements, often not even requiring offical government ID, instead accepting all mannar of types if ID including school issued ID's, Libary ID;s (if they ahve a photo), some even accept employer made ID's

All states that have voter ID laws also include a provision to get Free State Issues ID's so there is no cost requirement.

> ID requirements have been used for centuries in the US to disenfranchise

Because something was bad in the past, implemented in a different way, with different terms, under a difference society does is not a justification for opposition today.

>>If you know of a specific way

Some of the reforms / requirements I would like to see for voting

1. Week Long Voting including at-least 1 Sat and 1 Sun separated by 5 days.

2. In Person only unless provided a medical or other reason they can vote in person

3. if we are to have "ballot harvesting" Ballot collection only by certified, sworn and bonded person. A program akin to something notary public, and the collector must sign or otherwise identify their collections on the outside of the secure envelope, collections will be recorded and made part of the public record showing how many ballots each collector collected, and for what voter

4. Work with private partners to provide more polling locations, I am unclear why every Walmart, is not a polling location as an example

5. Remove all political parties from the ballot. We vote for people, not parties.

that is just a start