Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
Everybody has or can easily obtain a proper ID in this country.
This is completely false. Older people can have a problem getting an ID. And older Black people even more so. Last Election, 2020, CNN did a story over several weeks, where their reporter followed 5 different older people (80 and 90's) living in rural North Carolina attempting to get an ID so they could vote under new NC Voter ID laws. None of them drove and all were required to travel more than 60 miles to the county seat, where they needed to provide a birth certificate, which only 1 or 2 had. One woman after traveling 60 plus miles was told to contact the hospital she was born in. That hospital closed 50 years prior.
The saddest case was a 90 year old man. A veteran. Served the U.S in the Korean war (I think). He received veterans benefits from the V.A at the time, so they knew who he was, but yet at the airing of that segment, he was still unable to vote because he couldn't get the proper documentation.
All 5 of these older people were black. And that is what the voter ID laws are about. Just as that lawmaker from Pa said out loud and on camera, someone in the republican party.....one of these far right think tank groups, figured out that those who couldn't get the documentation necessary were disproportionately poorer black, meaning likely democrats. That is all these laws are about. Disenfranchising as many on the other side as possible. The freaking lawmaker in Pa said it out loud for God sakes.
How about you just come up with some decent, good ideas that some from the other side might support, rather than spend all this effort trying to stop them from voting. That is a novel idea.