Why do you support/not support voter IDs?
My personal reason for supporting voter ID's is that I think it makes the voter verification process much more efficient. Another position I've heard from Youngkin the GOP candidate running for Virginia governor is that elections are secure, but voter ID will "regain voter trust in the electoral process".
So what's your reason for or against voter ID? A related but not identical question is do you believe US elections as of today are secure enough to accurately portray the winner?
You should be able to prove you are a US citizen before you vote in any US election. Makes a lot of sense to me.
However, I'm not done any reading on voter I.D's to have a position on it.
I do not believe that voter fraud exists on any meaningful scale. However, either way I don’t really care if I have to go bring a photo ID with me when I vote — drivers license seems pretty reasonable.
edit: Reading up on it, 21 million people or 11% of all citizens lack government ID. Honestly, I’d kinda reverse my position now because if that many citizens lack ID, whether you want to admit it or not, there MUST be time-related or cost-related barriers to obtaining ID if that many people lack it. We need to do a better job of providing all of our citizens with proper identification or use another way to check citizenship during voting.
Just want to point out that a drivers license would disenfranchise a lot of people who don't drive, particularly poorer people who rely on bus/train to get around everywhere in the city, hence the reason why a separate ID with lower requirements (no driving test, no fees, etc.) would be needed.
Nothing will "regain voter trust" in the electoral process. That is, people will trust the process if their candidate won, and not trust the process if their candidate lost (see Gore 2000, Trump 2020).
Trump told a bunch of people that the election was rigged, so people believed him without evidence. That would be the case whether there was voter ID or not. It's a purely political stunt. Now this issue has become a political litmus test: nearly everyone on the left against, nearly everyone on the right for.
Was Gore 2000 as polarizing as Trump 2020? I wasn’t born then but I wouldn’t put them on the same level.
Not quite.
~60% of Dems and ~90% of Republicans in favor of Voter ID and the result has held across multiple studies. Posting left leaning sources (CNN and WaPo) that acknowledge and cite multiple studies giving this same rough range.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/25/politics/voter-id-election-law-voting-ri…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-voter-id/2021/06/22/0…
My position is that people who want voter ID need to provide statistical support as to why the system is corrupt and needs to be fixed. So far, I have not seen any tangible evidence showing any major issues with the system. If something is not broken, it does not need to be fixed.
Voter ID weeds out lower IQ (higher time preference) people from the voter pool. It’s better if dumb people don’t vote.
In theory, I 100% support it, but I understand that the American political climate would result in some legal voters not voting out of some sort of fear if it was mandated. I have some experience with Switzerland, and there this would never be an issue; hell, there people there have to wait 10 years to get citizenship, and even then it can be vetoed by the members of the specific Canton you're in. America is a special country under a microscope that no other country is under.
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