I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?

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    In the US the largest group of people without id’s are Democrats and black.

    It’s literally making the system more racist.

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      There’s nothing that makes it harder for them to get IDs though.

      No one should be allowed to vote without an ID, anywhere, ever. If you can’t prove who you are and where you live why should you be able to vote? This is how you get voter fraud.

      Here in Australia you’ve always required a government ID to be able to vote, and you need to provide it when you vote. It’s a great system. Anyone arguing against it needs to be asked why.

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      Every black person has an ID, you have to otherwise you can’t do anything anyways. I have never met anyone in my community who doesn’t have some form of ID that’s valid in elections.

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      So the question is, why doesn’t everyone have IDs? How does the country identify its citizens?

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        IDs cost money, require visits to DMVs (which conservatives work hard to shut down in poor areas, or other fuckery with their hours or such), and if you want the federal level one cost more and require more paperwork

        We use the garbage and not-designed-for-this social security number for major IDing

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        Because the republicans work very hard to make it difficult for people who would likely vote democrat.

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        If you got an ID sent to you when you turned $AGE I’d support requiring it to vote. But any proposal of free/automatic IDs gets shouted down by fanatics who think it’s the mark of the beast from Revelations. It’s a non-starter.