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.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    1 month ago

    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.