The only people who would be disenfranchised by having to show ID are those who probably shouldn’t be enfranchised to begin with - Picture ID is required for a myriad of services, so it’s just not a big deal. the number of folks without proof of identity these days is statistically meaningless. It’s more important to prevent dilution of legally cast votes.
Do you mean anyone other than noncitizens?
When and where has that actually happened?
No. My grandfather went to vote in the local primary (about 6 mths later) and the election volunteer later asked him where his wife was (they always went out to vote together). Then she crossed her name off the list. Funny story; the last time my elderly, frail, cancer-stricken, senile grandmother ventured out in public was to vote against George W. Bush.
Bingo. The problem is that the current implementation(s) doesn’t/don’t have these provisions. This is the way that it should work, but the fact that people who have been making public-policy for decades can’t (or purposely didn’t) figure this out, makes me wonder about their actual motives for the legislation that they’re passing.
I remember the “proof of residency” thing being quite a hassle when I lived with my folks. I didn’t have my own bank account or credit cards, and of course all the utility and mortgage bills were in their names. I could see something similar happening to poor people who live with family members or rent a room from someone without a written lease.
My beef is that it is something I have to keep track of that gets used, at most, once a year, and more likely only every two years.
What with every grocery store, coffee shop, hardware store (ace rewards), etc, etc I’ve got way to many cards that people expect me to lug around. The ones I use a couple times a week, I don’t mind so much…once every 24 months? no freakin’ way.
So if I don’t keep it in my wallet, that means I have to come up with a safe place™ in which to leave it for the next two years. In my experience, stuff I have placed in a safe place for long term storage is next seen only after the fith time I needed and couldn’t find it, and nowhere near any time when I need it now.
From what I can tell, all you have to do to be indistinguishable from the nearest illegal alien is to lose your birth certificate. Now, I don’t have the faintest idea where I put my birth certificate (I’m sure it’s somewhere safe); so there’s no way to tell me from an illegal.
Does that mean that I should be disenfranchised? Or is there something else I should be overlooking?
(Note that if you say that anybody stupid enough to misplace their birth certificate shouldn’t be allowed to vote, I would ripsote with the statement that anybody stupid enough to disagree with me shouldn’t be allowed to either. So don’t bother with that approach.)