Did a little prompting - don’t assume it’s accurate:
- 21 million in US lack voter ID
- 16 million out of those eligible to vote
- 15 states without voter ID are all democratic leaning
- 2 are swing states
- groups without voter: African Americans 25%, Hispanic 16%, young 18%, elderly 18%, low income 15%
- all of these groups are least represented in voter turnout
There seems to be some merit to not requiring an ID for voting based on these stats. Unless we all know a solution exists that takes these people into account.
But, I also found it interesting that supposedly there are very few voter fraud cases - but I wonder how they know if they don’t check for ID…
But… it’s also safe to assume - I think - that groups who are not likely to vote would have little desire to show up and “cheat”. You’d have to force them to cheat or do it on their behalf.
But, the case for ID also makes a lot of sense.
I don’t know what the ideal solution looks like.
The ideal solution is if you cared enough to vote, you would meet the dead simple requirements. Voting is easy enough as it is. Should be harder imo.
The whole point is that they can’t meet those requirements, or they would try.
They can meet them, they lack the will.
I'm sure they've improved and streamlined the vote count fraud tech since 2020 and could probably do it in real time instead of pausing counts in the middle of the night and taking 3 more days to pad it out.
Yeah I don’t know what’s up with that. That screams fraud more than IDs tbh.
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