How is having to show ID voter suppression? (Hispanics, school, parties)
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If requiring a valid photo ID to vote is considered voter suppression then Canada, Mexico, and most of Western Europe are guilty of voter suppression.
Some countries use their cedulas. Mexico switched to voter IDS - however I wonder what the cost is - An ID in FL is $25. you must have the required B-cert from the Vital statistics- $10 min. and then you must take it to a DMV - and have a proper address for district, maybe live with someone? So figure rural towns.... not so close- so need- someone's car and gas, and free time during the week. For some its just not that easy -not all have computers or access.
And some suggest on here- that only tax payers have a right to vote or those who took a class in civics... the world of the elites??
It's more complicated than that. Many people show up at the ID offices and because their birth certificate and marriage license have a different spelling of the last name they are refused the ID. The person is 85 years old, has voted for 55 years but now because of new laws can't. So the govt. could allow clerks at the ID offices to allow these folks to get their ID blah blah....but they don't -- they are refused.
Alot of that really just depends on which clerk you happen to get at the ID office! Some follow the rules more than others from what Ive seen.
When Ive had to renew or get another ID, Ive encountered clerks who do everything by the book, they will require proof of who you are down to the Tee...but other times, Ive had clerks that skip over the requirements and issue the ID anyway...it just varies, Im sure its like this in different states too.
The issue is that can be seen as a poll tax and that’s not allowed. You cannot have a cost required to vote.
Every single person in the state can have an ID... but if said ID costs money... still won’t happen.
States that have ID laws have had to make them free.
It can be seen as anything. Suppression, racism, poll tax.
Truth is it is really, really hard to get by in this country without any documentation. To go to school, to work, to travel, to rent, to buy, to bank, to drive, to get medical care, insurance, to get government services and sometimes charitable food distributions, to get a library card.
It's suppression because many poor people do not have the means to pay for an ID, or to stand in line for hours at the BMV to get an ID.
The poor have to have a state-issued photo ID to apply for public assistance benefits for themselves and/or their children. They already have one. Hell, even my developmentally disabled (56-years-old with a mental age of 6) step-sister has one.
And yes, she votes. She's in the same Chicago Catholic residential facility as David Axelrod's daughter. They're all (everyone old enough to vote) taken to vote, en masse in buses, by "staff" who tell them for whom to vote (always Democrats). And they dutifully do so. Can you believe it? Catholic Nuns and Priests running game for the pro-abortion party. That's Chicago. /smh
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