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by slibhb
1596 days ago
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> Making it harder for people to vote is literally voter suppression As I said upthread, it's "literally true but dishonest". Barring children from voting is literally voter suppression but calling it that is stupid. > I don't think you can argue that adding unnecessary steps to voting, and making penalties for making mistakes harsher while making it easier to make mistakes, is anything else. Reasonable people can disagree over whether showing an id to vote is "unnecessary". The fact remains that voter id laws are not unreasonable, not beyond the pale, most Americans support them, and this whole thing is a manufactured political drama. |
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Actually, no, it's not. Maybe this is pedantic, but children are not, and have never been, putative voters and therefore are not being suppressed.
Minority groups less likely to have IDs are voters, however. 8% of white Americans do not have government photo ID, whereas 25% of African-American citizens do not[1].
[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-...