'If I Need ID to Buy Cough Syrup, Why Shouldn't I Need ID to Vote?'

Re:'If I Need ID to Buy Cough Syrup, Why Shouldn't I Need ID... by cortesoft on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:33PM (#6987510)

Not being required to have an ID card is something we Americans find to be an important freedom. Many (myself included) feel that requiring people to have an ID card is a slippery slope towards requiring people to show that ID card on demand. The idea of an authority figure being able to 'ask for your papers' is a scary one for us.

As the article said, voter fraud is NOT really a problem. No one has ever been able to demonstrate that people illegally voting or voting more than once has happened enough to ever change an election. We want to make it as easy to vote as possible to encourage everyone to vote.

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Re:'If I Need ID to Buy Cough Syrup, Why Shouldn't I Need ID... by Tomte on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:21PM (#6987782)

I think it's important to regularly point these issues out, because even though many of "us" intellectually know about them, it's still hard to emotionally grasp for "us", how ID cards could be a slippery slope, why freedom of speech should trump everything else, no matter what, or why home schooling should be allowed at all.

Cultures differ wildly, and it's hard to really accept that the other guy might have a valid point of view.

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Re:'If I Need ID to Buy Cough Syrup, Why Shouldn't I Need ID... by mschuster91 on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:16PM (#6987765)

I consider the claims of fraud on George W. Bush's elections made by Michael Moore to be pretty sufficient...

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Re:'If I Need ID to Buy Cough Syrup, Why Shouldn't I Need ID... by Jtsummers on Monday December 30, 2013 @09:12PM (#6988511)

IIRC his claims were not about individuals committing voter fraud, but fraud in the procedure of processing the votes. Which voter ID laws do nothing to help with.

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