• wewbull
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    1 year ago

    … and will call for changes, including the acceptance of a greater range of ID documents.

    They’re just a bunch of fucking dullards aren’t they?!?! REPEAL IT!

      • HumanPenguin
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        1 year ago

        Because depriving requires a qualification, voting dose not,

        • soviettaters@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Voting requires you to be legally allowed to vote. This just makes it easier to verify who can and cannot vote.

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            1 year ago

            Yet all the evidence indicates 2 things.

            One it is not needed. As voter fraud is so low as to be insignificant.

            Two it actually limits peoples ability to vote.

        • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Where I live we get medical services cards with photos on them, free and no qualification needed, everyone eligible to vote should have or be able to get one

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            1 year ago

            We don’t. The new law requires local auth to issue photo ID. But dose not provide a standard way for people to confirm they are the person photographed.

            In genral its a mess. And leave the people least able to spare 9-5 time to run back and forth to council offices etc screwed.

            IE the poor who work long hours. Or disabled