So if requiring a photo id to vote is supposedly racist

[b]Here's an example:[/b] In his wallet, Anthony Settles carries an expired Texas identification card, his Social Security card and an old student ID from the University of Houston, where he studied math and physics decades ago. What he does not have is the one thing that he needs to vote this presidential election: a current Texas photo ID.

For Settles to get one of those, his name has to match his birth certificate — and it doesn’t. In 1964, when he was 14, his mother married and changed his last name. After Texas passed a new voter-ID law, officials told Settles he had to show them his name-change certificate from 1964 to qualify for a new identification card to vote.

So with the help of several lawyers, Settles tried to find it, searching records in courthouses in the D.C. area, where he grew up. But they could not find it. To obtain a new document changing his name to the one he has used for 51 years, Settles has to go to court, a process that would cost him more than $250 — more than he is willing to pay.
[i]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a-photo-id-so-you-can-vote-is-easy-unless-youre-poor-black-latino-or-elderly/2016/05/23/8d5474ec-20f0-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a228d6576a44[/i]

Many people don't need ID because they're obviously of legal age. Others don't use ID. Many merchants don't require ID. Look, the information on the discriminatory bent behind voter ID laws has been provided to you. If you're going to argue the point, argue the actual points.

Okay, let's require a photo id to vote. But let's also give every person a photo id so that they can vote. Deal?

The problem seems to be that many people simply don't have a photo ID and many states make it hard to get one. I've got NO problem with photo ID if there is a reasonable program for distributing them. Ideally -- every local town election office should have them available. problem is, they don't, and in some places poorer people, invalids, etc., are expected to travel hours to get one.

Don't forget, the president said we also need it for grocery shopping.

As long as photo IDs are easy for people without vehicles to obtain and maintain, there is no problem with it. The issue in many states, as several people have pointed out, is that it is used to proportionally suppress votes that would presumably be democratic votes. It is the voter suppression that is racist, not the act of showing voter ID.

Y'all again are reframing the issue and don't actually listen to the arguments and what was actually meant by it:

[quote]One widely cited 2006 study by the Brennan Center found voter ID laws, for instance, disproportionately impacted eligible black voters: 25 percent of black voting-age citizens did not have a government-issued photo ID, compared with 8 percent of white voting-age citizens. And a study for the Black Youth Project, which analyzed 2012 voting data for people ages 18 to 29, found 72.9 percent of young black voters and 60.8 percent of young Hispanic voters were asked for IDs to vote, compared with 50.8 percent of young white voters.

One reason for these kinds of numbers is disparate enforcement — polling officials, perhaps driven by racial biases, appear more likely to ask minority voters for an ID.

But minority voters are also generally hit harder by voter ID laws and other restrictions on voting. For example, since minority Americans are less likely to have flexible work hours or own cars, they might have a harder time affording a voter ID or getting to the right place (typically a DMV or BMV office) to obtain a voter ID, rely more on early voting opportunities to cast a ballot, or require a nearby voting place instead of one that’s a drive, instead of a walk, away from home or work.


Similar issues could apply to voter purges. Vanita Gupta, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, previously explained: “Here’s how the government will use voters’ data. It will create a national database to try to find things like double-voters. But the commission won’t be able to tell two people with the same name and birthday apart. Such errors will hit communities of color the hardest. Census data shows that minorities are overrepresented in 85 of the 100 most common last names.”

For civil rights groups, the new restrictions and efforts call back to the days of poll taxes, literacy tests, and other rules that were imposed to block minorities from voting until the Voting Rights Act effectively banned such laws. Like modern voting restrictions, the old laws didn’t appear to racially discriminate at face value. But due to selective enforcement and socioeconomic disparities, they disproportionately kept out black voters.[/quote]

Requiring photo id to vote and then making it difficult for some people to get it has been used to stop them from voting in some places, Google it

spoken like a true racist

Those are priveleges, not rights, for one.

Btw, this is also why you don’t need to show ID for private gun sales.

I wouldn't worry about it. 8% of our population are political activists, and 25% of our population will repeat anything they are told like brainless parrots.

The racist card is always played by people who are too stupid to think of legitimate reasons for objecting to everything done by the current administration.

Everything is racist just like every white person is a racist

I tend to just ignore those dregs, shame these "everything I don't agree with is racist" managed to get into the gene pool.

don't have that problem here, we have mail-in ballots.

Everything is racist

Vote early, vote often.