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by slg 1600 days ago
Coupling a free and easy to acquire national ID for every citizen with the requirement to show your ID when voting is the obvious compromise. It makes one wonder why almost all the people pushing for voter ID laws refuse to engage with this compromise.
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Because the people pushing for voter ID don't actually care about voter ID, they care about maintaining the current inequality in ability to vote.
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