CMV: Instead of trying to avoid voter ID laws, we should instead try to improve access to IDs (in the U.S.)

but absolute integrity is more important than a little inconvenience.

I mean... sure, but voter fraud in the US is little more than a statistical error even without Voter ID.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter\_impersonation\_(United\_States)

You are trying to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.

So many countries have these requirements when their elections are free and fair.

The only issue is how someone can get an ID, but we should get legislators to build more DMVs and get them to open for longer, and provide free access to an ID for people who have a verified address of residence (homeless shelter should count).

One half of the US political system is on record as wanting to prevent easy-access to IDs. The Republicans are the ones screeching for Voter IDs to "prevent (effectively-nonexistent) voter fraud"..... while simultaneously cutting funding for DMV/RMVs in minority areas, enacting laws restricting voting locations, times and refreshments, etc etc etc

Don't put the cart before the horse

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