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by souprock 2443 days ago
This one is: "12. Purchase a gun"

On the other hand, unless you are one of the 538 electors, you don't have a constitutional right to vote for the president.

So if "constitutional rights" is the determining factor, it's the ID requirement for guns that you should be fighting against.

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I'm not a legal scholar, but I believe there are more restrictions on the 2nd Amendment than there are on the amendments related to voting. Specifically the 24th Amendment prohibits the poll tax and requiring a voter to pay for an ID is in practice a poll tax.

Also this topic isn't limited to presidential elections, so that Electoral College logic loophole doesn't apply to all elections.