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This is a great idea, but without voter ID and photo requirements, no one will be able to trust our elections anyways. Every other major democracy uses voter ID and we use voter ID for everything from buying beer to gaining entry to a politician's events. It's time we protect our elections.
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I tend to agree subject to the condition states pay for the ID creation, and provided states mandate this themselves. I agree because some better operational control wouldn't hurt.

The fed has no real business here. Hell, the clowns on the hill can't handle what they should have been doing all along. It's something like 10 years since the last time budgets got done in regular order. Debt, interest on the debt are big problems. The DOD can't pass an audit. We have a war in Iran without congressional authorization. Let's face it: congress is an institutional zero.

Trump has the devil's problem, except even the devil isn't that stupid. He says 2+2=4 (analogously show id). But there's no trust. Moreover trump is replete in attempts to cheat, distort, and corrupt voting. Nakedly so. Therefore, he is his own worst enemy here.

Cheating or errors don't alter elections. Trump et al lost 10s of cases saying otherwise. Trump is all talk. No reality. It must suck to be him.

But you know what would help more? Getting the people who don't vote at all out. Thats some 40ish percent of all Americans. In Brazil you are fined for not voting.


I have lived in multiple States and the only time I did not have to show an ID to vote was in Florida in 2020.



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