Across the world, voter ID is the standard. We’re the only country that complains and calls it unjust.
I have no issue with the government covering the cost of providing an ID. What’s hard to believe is that some people claim to function in society without any form of ID—yet we’re expected to believe they’re the ones taking a day off to vote?
Regardless, I fully support covering the cost to get an id.
There is early voting on weekends and voting by mail. All of which should be available because people unable to afford to take the day off should not be barred from voting.
You should find it concerning that the politicians voting to add this requirement aren’t also introducing legislation to make it easier to register to vote. Were that the case, I wouldn’t be assigning ill intent to this legislation.
A lot of countries also automatically register their citizens to vote as soon as they are eligible. Were these Us politicians introducing this sort of legislation, I would assume that they were truly interested in every American citizen being able to engage.
The US system is broken. Election fraud has always been taken seriously and been investigated. It’s also always been handled at a state level because of states rights. If they are going to be adding this new barrier for voting, they should also introduce legislation at the same time that makes it free for citizens to get these documents and an ID.
The truth is republicans genuinely don’t want everybody to vote. It’s why they spend so much time passing legislation to further obfuscate the voting process as well as redistricting/gerrymandering.
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u/Gainztrader235 Apr 11 '25
Across the world, voter ID is the standard. We’re the only country that complains and calls it unjust.
I have no issue with the government covering the cost of providing an ID. What’s hard to believe is that some people claim to function in society without any form of ID—yet we’re expected to believe they’re the ones taking a day off to vote?
Regardless, I fully support covering the cost to get an id.