You already register to vote. The only potential for fraud is for one person to sneak in and use your name to vote before you do. In all the allegations of voter fraud, there has never been news of someone showing up to vote to find out someone else voted in their name.
Photo ID solves no problems at the polls. All it does is provide an excuse for the government to tinker with the election process and for those in power to tilt the outcome of future elections in their favor.
All voters already register to vote. They get to cast one vote. The only avenue for fraud without ID is for some one person to sneak in and vote under your name before you do. But in all the talk of voter fraud and stolen elections nobody ever claims this happened to them.
If there is fraud, there's no proof of it, and no allegations of a type of fraud that an ID would fix.
@TheAliceSmith Obama tried this, and the Republicans and the healthcare industry shot it down. Yes, this is exactly what we should do. Create a public option for those who choose it.
Every voter already has to register to vote in their district. Every voter gets one vote. You show up, you cast it. ID solves nothing.
How many people have ever gone to the poll to find out that someone else used their name to vote? That's the only avenue for a non-registered voter to exploit, and if it's ever happened, it sure hasn't been in the news.
Voter ID is a red herring designed to let the federal government tinker with how voting works in general. It has nothing - nothing - to do with curtailing voter fraud.
@RealMattCouch Those files contain deep doo-doo for a lot of powerful people on both sides of the aisle, and nobody is releasing any of it because of the mutually-assured destruction it would bring.
That's why Trump isn't prosecuting anyone on it either. They all just want it to go away.
@Censored4sure Maybe you should start with their ringleader, Donald Trump, the guy who was in charge during Covid and who bragged about his beautiful wonderful vaccine and his Operation Warp Speed that delivered it.
@elonmusk I'm confused. Are going to send ICE after transgender people now? I thought it was the hispanic men doing all the violence and needing such draconian response.
Or are we not letting ourselves be swayed by a bar chart with no source and no context?
@realMAG1775 Why do conservatives scoff at gun control, but support masked anonymous federal personnel rounding people up without warrants or due process?
You don't need a physical ID to vote, but you ARE required to register to vote. And when you do, you get one. Your name is crossed off the list.
How many people do you really think are going in and voting under someone else's name? And doing this before the actual voter shows up.
How many people complain of showing up to vote and their vote has already been cast somehow?
This whole issue is a boogy man trying to scare you into giving the feds more power over elections so that they have more power over their outcome. We're smarter than this.
Read. A. Book.
There many variants of influenza. The vaccine doesn't give you immunity to all of them, and vaccines don't provide immunity forever, necessarily.
But if it did, the reason we'd still have the flu is the lack of people who take the vaccine.
We don't have polio. We haven't had measles. The vaccines work for a society when everyone takes them and eradicates the pathogen because it can't find a host to survive in.
Well, he's certainly putting his name on some buildings. And he's got ICE out there with masked anonymity doing what they do. And mountains of Epstein documents with ZERO convictions of an Epstein client. But maybe we'll get Greenland somehow, or make good bank off the oil from Venezuela. Hopefully before his health care plan that he's been talking about since 2016 is finally unveiled, or the East Wing is restored.
But hey, yeah, eggs.
@SonofManwithus If you won't trust a doctor to give you a vaccine, how can you trust a doctor when they prescribe... anything? Or when they perform surgery on you?
If you are anti-vaccine, it really doesn't make a shred of logical sense to participate in the healthcare system at all.
@CynicalPublius But free speech is a right, and we don't need to kick people out just because they have opinions.
In fact, embracing people who exercise their right to free speech makes our country great by demonstrating our commitment to our peoples' freedom.
To better quantify "so much" evidence, let's just call it "none". No evidence at all, as evidenced by absolutely no one - including Trump himself - being able to produce it.
Nor by his own justice department being able to make a case now that he's in power.
Besides, if the Dems were able to rig an election, how on Earth do you think they'd let Trump win in 24?
Can we please not surrender the most basic logical think-though to the propaganda machine?
A total of zero people were forced to watch it.
But if it's disrespectful to have Americans sit through performances in other languages, I guess we'll be banning opera now too?
I think it's much more disrespectful to Americans to cast us as so fragile and simple that we can't enjoy something just because it's rooted in another culture. We're better than that.
@ValerieAnne1970 This is your reminder that Trump was President, and Fauci was one of many world-wide scientists working on Covid. Are we so frenzied by our grievances that even the most obvious, simple, logic escapes us? Come on, America. You're better than this.