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Mandating voter ID is good, but only after making sure that getting an ID is free and accessible to everyone. Otherwise it's just voter suppression.
Yeah, something that I see come up from time to time is defenders of voter ID pointing at the fact that Canada has it, and its like.... Yeah, we do. But the list is acceptable ID includes
(sung to the tune Yakko's Countries of the World)
And if you can't find any of that, you can have someone else vouch for you.
Also registering to vote can be done on the spot at the polling booth. It takes five minutes.
So if you're willing to provide aaaaallllllllllllllllllll those options for voter ID, then I'll believe that the intent is to secure your elections, not make them more difficult.
By the way, we also have mail in voting, proxy voting, advance voting (typically up to a month ahead of an election), votes are always done by hand on paper with a pen (for provincial and civic elections they can be machine tallied with manual recounts as needed, for federal elections they are only ever hand tallied), we put voting stations in prisons (yes, for the people incarcerated there), hospitals, retirement homes and army bases, there are so many voting stations that you are never more than a five minute walk from your nearest one, and your work is obligated to give you time off to go vote if you need it.
Voting doesn't have to be hard. Canada has proven this time and time again. Our elections are some of the most secure and well managed in the world. And even in elections with a high turnout I have never ever waited more than five minutes to vote. Lines of voters queuing for hours is a choice, not an inevitability.
Here in European country it's mandatory, and generally it has to be id or passport (very very few and usually not generally accessing alternatives exist, drivers license in particular is not a valid id).
The thing is the id is
For me to have an official id and to have to use it sounds just normal really. Changing the rules last minute of course is not OK, but with with enough notice...
Our voting might not be entirely fair but hell yea, at least we can do it. Voting has always been absurdly easy for me, and I always go early.
I assume by "not be entirely fair" you're referring to the fact that we cling to first past the post like a concrete bollard on a sinking ship, in which case yes, absolutely agreed. Our voting is impressively fair in the sense that every vote is tallied and everyone has ample opportunities to vote, but our vote distribution still fucking sucks and needs to be changed pronto.
Yup, exactly. You can tally everyone’s vote perfectly but if it doesn’t lead to an outcome that makes sense it’s not worth a whole lot. The change to make it properly fair would be so easy, too.
Thanks for the thorough answer.
I haven't read the article, but I think it's safe to assume I have bad news for you.
Edit: I read the article, it doesn't say. It's still probably safe to assume bad news
It's Republicans, so of course it's about voter suppression. It's never been about preventing fraud.
Yeah, that's what they want. Much of the conservative project for decades now has been trying to suppress the vote of POC.
Hell, many conservatives are still butthurt that women can vote, FFS. I have to laugh when low-info and/or conservatives accuse liberals of "engaging in conspiracies" when anyone shows concern over women who changed their name for marriage having a hard time voting under a system corrupted by conservatives. It's not a "conspiracy" when you understand what your enemy's proclivities are and call them out...
Presumably there's a way to make literacy tests make sense too but we don't live in that world. The history of American voter suppression says voter ID laws in the United States are a form of voter suppression. One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson is a great read. It should make you angry.
Don't worry the Supreme Court is working on that