# I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)

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**Created:** [June 12, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943 "2012-06-12T19:15:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/6073 "2014-09-04T17:31:28Z")

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> [@xenophon41](#):
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> “Adds some value” is the assertion you’ve spent the bulk of your voluminous efforts in this thread pursuing. Two years worth of borderline eloquent, undeniably verbose defense of “not the best solution.” Some might take that as more of a… what’s the word? An _endorsement_ of all the intended consequences of those laws, not just those which might address the nominal “problem” the laws purport to fix. But that’s just some folks who’d think that, so I wouldn’t worry about it.
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> Really? Can’t find any objections from liberals to the principle of voter verification, through fingerprints or any other method that doesn’t create disparate burdens. Can you narrow that down to a few usernames?

Well, **Czarcasm** :

> [@The most important thing you need to know about the voter ID issue . . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-important-thing-you-need-to-know-about-the-voter-id-issue/664813/28):
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> > [@The most important thing you need to know about the voter ID issue . . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-important-thing-you-need-to-know-about-the-voter-id-issue/664813/25):
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> > I have no objection to that. What’s more, your stained fingertip would serve as an “I Voted” sticker, like the purple ink some countries use.
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> If the goal is to further decrease the number of voters, it’s an excellent idea. The passage of such a law coupled with some timely rumors about what the government will be doing with all those fingerprints, and the voting ranks will be thinned out even more than they are now, which is certainly one of the goals of the Republican Party. You will be losing many more legitimate(but already paranoid) voters than fraudulent voters.

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