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Awareness -> RE: Voter laws (7/31/2016 8:20:06 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Greta75
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ORIGINAL: Awareness
No. Voter ID is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise those at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum who almost invariably vote Democrat. Homeless people and poor people often don't have acceptable forms of ID. It is a corrupt Republican practice designed to enable electoral fraud.
This has to be a uniquely American problem.
Our birth certificate, which EVERY baby, regardless rich or poor should have one, IS a form of ID.
IF that fails, maybe we have policy that social workers will knock on every door of every baby recorded when their time for school starts and make sure every kid gets to go to school. If they got financial issues, there are lots of help at hands. The kid can get free uniforms, school books, school fees waived, and they get pocket money from private organizations who pledge to help to make sure no child has an excuse not to go to school.
So if for some damn strange reason you lost your birth certificate, by 12 yr old, every kid enrolled in school, will automatically get an ID.
Like, perhaps the problem is that US don't issue ID compulsory to EVERYBODY born in the US? But surely every legal citizen has a birth certificate right? Singapore is more totalitarian than the USA. While the USA does have birth certificates, the probability they'll be destroyed or lost tends to increase the lower down the socioeconomic ladder you are.
For various reasons, the USA tends to use your social security number as ID. This is unfortunate as it's frequently stolen and used to aid identity theft. Essentially the USA does have a problem with verification of identity in general. What you will tend to find is that identity is most verifiable for those who have the most social and societal links. IE: If you have a job, pay taxes, have friends in the community, are a member of clubs, attend social events, pay utility bills, receive Amazon deliveries at your home... all these things add up to a general sense of identity which can be verified in one way or another.
Poor people do very few of these things. Homeless people do none of them. Consequently, the poor and homeless are further disenfranchised by voter ID laws. These laws are deliberately designed to remove their right to vote which is a direct breach of the 15th amendment and is thus, unconstitutional.
Voter fraud - in terms of people voting twice or illegals voting - is not a problem. Electoral fraud - in terms of the electronic voting machines being used - is an enormous problem. The company Diebold which makes these machines has been exposed as incompetent at best or downright devoted to fraud at worst. "Hacking Democracy" exposes Diebold's incompetence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy) and demonstrates how easily these machines can be hacked. It is reasonable to assume that the use of Diebold machines may have influenced the outcome of the 2000 Presidential election.
Diebold is well known in the security industry for the poor design of its machines. It bewilders competent observers why this company is allowed to continue in the business of supplying e-voting machines. Doing so is enabling further electoral fraud.
Of course, Republicans don't care about Diebold because bribing the right people to manipulate e-voting totals is something which works to their advantage. Republicans are essentially corrupt.
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