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RE: Just a reminder, if you are thinking about Voter ID Laws
It is consistently frustrating to me that voter ID laws continue to crop up. While I don't think it's an unreasonable idea, I do think that government issues IDs should be provided without cost. Removing the cost would remove a significant barrier to getting a photo ID.
Very much so.
Another issue is that each state has a different rule for their identification cards, and there is no national ID card because people are so terrified of the federal government using it to track them and creating a "slippery slope" to surveillance by the feds and crap (which has led to the social security card, a card that is not meant to be used for ID being used as a form of ID).
Which also means that anti-immigration groups are for a national ID and pro-equal rights groups are against a national ID. And MN had to deal with the worry that Minnesotans wouldn't be able to board a plane without a passport because of the Real-ID laws that were passed (side note: we can still fly with our current IDs until 2020).
I really feel like ID is an easy issue for us (as a nation) to come together and make a compromise. But that's become a 4-letter word in recent-ish years.
True. Partisanship is very much on the rise - it is most disturbing. I point out in The GOP is not the Party of Lincoln - A Brief History. Part II: Progressive Booaloo that partisanship has been on the rise since the 19th century and provide citations.
Hell, it can be seen when looking at the electoral history of Minnesota and how it is becoming a swing state.