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Who says it's not hard? I mean, YOU say it's not hard but you don't provide facts, you only provide your opinion which is rooted in conservative bias.
Nothing is perfectly secure, but it is important that everyone only vote ONE time and with an ID that makes that more likely. For the record there are MANY other things not NEARLY as important as voting that require an ID.
There does not appear to be any reason for those measures. You do not seem to understand that it is the person that tries to limit something that has the burden of proof. You might as well claim that poll workers had to hop on their right leg sometime during the processing of a ballot.
Even with an application how do you suppose people get an application would they not need to REQUEST one?
It is also extremely important that we make it easier for valid voters to vote. The fact that false votes are negligible means that there is no need for excessive regulation.
How hard is it to provide an ID? I do not care who you are if you can provide an ID that says you are who you say you are and are qualified to vote at least 18, not in prison a citizen then by all means vote.
Interesting. In the US where we do have states with vote by mail, it does not appear that such excessive safety is unnecessary.
It wasn't. But all that changed with the raft of new election policies put in place, often just by some government official's edict, prior to the 2020 election.
It varies. And why would you need one? The evidence shows that showing an ID to register is good enough. If you are going to make ID's necessary then you would have to find a way to guarantee that the poor could get them as easily as anyone else. Voting is a right. There are no rights to limit a state's right to restrict voting.
Always the added claim that false or invalid votes were negligible. They appear not to have been negligible.
No, not true. If you limit the process to the point that significant numbers cannot vote that makes it less trustworthy.
We do have easy ways for the poor to get them. They are free, and moreover you must produce an ID to receive federal assistance that means that if you are poor enough to benefit from SNAP or TANF you would have an ID any now.
Wrong again. Study after study has confirmed it. You cannot find any valid sources that say the opposite.
What is making it to where people cannot vote by requiring an ID? It is required for government assistance, to buy certain things, to drive, to rent a car, to rent a hotel room, to get on a plane ECT. If it is required to get government assistance then that means that even the poor about have to have one if they want that assistance.
That claim doesn't appear to be true in states with voting restrictions. It has been repeatedly shown that many voting "security" laws were merely written to keep the poor from voting.
I do not see how as requiring an ID that can be gotten for free has nothing to do with being rich or poor.
and almost everything important in life requires us to identify ourselves, from renewing a license to checking out a book from the library to cashing a check. And most of them cost something, unlike the voter IDs. But for some reason, the argument we hear is that it's quite sensible to let unknown persons cast ballots in an election for president!
