What better way to get the populace to go along with a plan to make everyone carry identity papers than by masking it as a voting security issue?You may be digging too deep on this one... I think it is a pretty transparent political issue. Many of the innercity poor who do not have drivers licenses would likely vote for Democrats or candidates that that support increasing welfare benefits. This is why Republicans want to tighten the regulations and Dems want to loosen. This issue is very much politicized, so common sense left the building a while ago.I think there may be an entirely different motive for our government wanting us all to carry identity papers. It makes it easier to control a population's movements.Yes...an excellent point...they have voter I.D. in Wisconsin....and it supressed voters...right? Er....what? What was that you say? There was record voter turn out....? Really? Even with Voter I.D.....? Really?
After all, Voter ID does not stop the most common types of voter fraud which occur. And when something does not achieve what it is claimed to achieve, then it must have a different purpose, right? If something doesn't achieve what it is claimed to achieve, then any sane person who wants as little government intervention in our lives as possible would abandon the project, wouldn't they?
QED, Voter ID has some other purpose. And since you sometimes attempt to give the impression you don't like the federal government, I find it veeeeeeery curious you are a stooge for the government movement to get us all to carry identity papers.
See: REAL ID Act of 2005.
The fact Voter ID does not achieve its stated purpose makes it very suspect and suggests an entirely different motive behind it.
Then let's do away with driver's licenses and state ids. After all, don't we all have a right to travel? Why limit the population?
"Then let's do away with driver's licenses and state ids." That's a petulant response.
I remember in the 1970s when we conservatives used to point out that in Communist Russia you needed three forms of government papers to travel across that country. It was a point of pride we could travel anywhere in America without any ID at all.
We have surrendered a great many of our liberties and freedoms in the name of "security". The modern pseudo-conservative is a fearful, terrified person who jumps at every shadow and sees a need for ever-increasing government control over our lives. They don't want anyone to make a move until after being examined under a searchlight at the point of a gun.
It's time to start rolling this shit back. Way past time. It is time to walk upright and fearless again, like men.
Now, I cannot think of any other way to prove someone is over 18 without an ID so they can buy alcohol. There just isn't any other way.
That does not mean there is no way to tell if someone is eligible to vote without an ID. That's why it is an apples and oranges fallacy to say idiotic things like, "I need an ID to buy beer, therefore I should need an ID to vote".
We voted for two centuries without ID. The voting process is made secure long before the day you show up to actually vote. It is secured though the registration process, and if in-person fraud is occurring, I can absolutely guarantee it is because of holes in the registration process, NOT because of a lack of Voter ID.
The rubes demonstrate their total ignorance of the electoral process when they insist our problems are due to a lack of Voter ID.
It's more reasonable than the insult filled rants you're putting out. We lived for 100 years without any form of gun control. We've lived with gun control measures for the last 50 years. Things change. Usually, like with voter ID, the change is for the better.