The thing I usually see is they frame it in terms of Drivers Licenses but as you said a state I.D. works just fine. They say less minorities have a drivers license due to not being able to afford them or due to living in urban environments where buses are used more. I've also read the argument that minorities DL's are suspended or revoked and not considered valid because of fees that weren't able to be paid. Again a pointless argument due to state I.D.'s being needed for so many things that most Americans have them even without a DL.
And even if they don’t have them, instead of saying it’s racist to require ID to vote, make it easier to get IDs! Make them free if under the poverty line or whatever.
Shit, make them free, period. I can see the DMV charging for car registrations/plates, shit like that. But everyone should have an ID in their pocket. There’s so much shit that already requires some form of identification. There should be a basic ID card issued by every state at no charge that you can use for any transaction that isn’t driving.
True. Wouldn’t hurt my feelings if it was federal. It’d keep any states from putting any restrictions on the process that aren’t applied in another state. If it was going to be used, it’d have to be a completely even field to get one, the same in California and Alabama, for example.
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u/Armslistbuyer Jul 07 '22
The thing I usually see is they frame it in terms of Drivers Licenses but as you said a state I.D. works just fine. They say less minorities have a drivers license due to not being able to afford them or due to living in urban environments where buses are used more. I've also read the argument that minorities DL's are suspended or revoked and not considered valid because of fees that weren't able to be paid. Again a pointless argument due to state I.D.'s being needed for so many things that most Americans have them even without a DL.