I don’t think the idea, of making sure your voters are citizens and who they say they are, is unreasonable. I’m a bit surprised it already wasn’t the case.

It is already the case that we verify who people are at the polls. That’s what the voter registration card is.

Voter registration card => Free, no travel needed, can be done outside of businesshours, no prerequisites that cost money, just need to know your information

Drivers license => Money, travel, time during business hours

Passport => same as previous

They want to move us off of the system that’s already working to verify identity with no barriers to entry, to one that does have barriers to entry.

I also think it kind of pales in comparison when you think about how the entire system after votes are cast works. If you’re a republican in California or a Democrat in Texas, you might as just not vote. After the opposite party “win the state” your vote no longer matters. That shouldn’t be the case. Each and every vote should have equal worth.

I agree, it’s fucked up and planely apparent that it’s a failure even on paper.

However it is still worth voting in every election, aa there are local positions on the ballot every time, and those have a much better chance of being swayed away from the lunatics in the GOP. And that’s especially the case if it’s a city.

The whole system we have for elections is fucked, the least we can do is not make it more fucked by putting up more barriers to entry.