The way voter ID laws like this prevent citizens from voting is generally considered a feature — by restricting ID forms common among the young, such as student IDs, they change the makeup of the electorate to favor Republicans.
The way voter ID laws like this prevent citizens from voting is generally considered a feature — by restricting ID forms common among the young, such as student IDs, they change the makeup of the electorate to favor Republicans.
Other developed countries have national IDs, don’t they? I’m fine with arguing for dragging the US to civilization but you have the cart before the horse there if that’s your justification for voter ID laws.
You start hitting a hard political issue of requiring every citizen needing a national ID from birth. It is surprisingly politically unpopular creating this form of ID.
So you have this hodgepodge of state requirements, and even then there isn’t a requirements that all residents of a state who are citizens have an ID.