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by polyphonic01 2817 days ago
No it's not racist, it can easily be implemented in the US today without issue.

Don't be so patronizing to minority groups, they are just as capable as everyone else and already have to get ID for numerous other activities.

The US is less racist than most other countries on Earth, yet somehow it is the US that couldn't properly implement voter ID cards?

Racism in America has dropped dramatically in the last 50 years according to multiple lines of research, the perception that racism is on the rise is false and misguided.

It's a shame voter ID can't be implemented on a nationwide basis in the US just because people have concerns that are longer valid.
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mikeash 2817 days ago
Don’t be so ignorant about the motivations and techniques behind American voter ID laws. The people writing the laws have literally studied the demographics of who possesses which kind of ID so that they can write the laws to accept forms more likely to be held by white voters and reject forms more likely to be held by minorities. And then they’ll shut down or limit the hours of ID offices in minority areas to make it more difficult for them to remedy the situation.

We absolutely could properly implement voter ID. We just don’t.

Edit: I would encourage skeptics to look up the history of voter literacy tests. How can a literacy test be racist? Are you implying that minorities can’t learn to read? And yet they were highly effective at suppressing the minority vote for a long time.

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acct1771 2817 days ago
That last part is true, and should be fixed before implementing voter ID laws.
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pjc50 2817 days ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/voter-id-laws...

Unusually, this links to the actual court result: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/29/us/document-A...

The bill was specifically and deliberately amended to choose only those specific forms of ID that African-Americans were least likely to hold.

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lozenge 2817 days ago
Republican politicians and lobbying groups are literally on video admitting their political and racial motivation for the voter ID laws. Do you think they're lying?
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