In more important news, Jeff Sessions doesn’t like poor and/or minority voters. Big shocker there.
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/02/27/voter-id-case-trumps-team-drops-argument-against-texas/
I don’t get the argument at all that somehow minorities aren’t capable of getting an ID. It’s not unreasonable to need an ID to vote.
Just do a few seconds of Googling and you’ll find tons of evidence speaking to how this disenfranchises minorities and the poor (and the elderly). I assume you’ll just dismiss it, but it’s real.
I know, I’ve seen all that, but I still am not convinced that it’s a horrible obstacle to voting.
An obstacle doesn’t have to be “horrible” to be a violation of Constitutional rights.
It is more difficult to get a license if you were born before the Great Depression or in a completely rural area,
I would think I most of the people born before the Great Depression, probably shouldn’t have a driver’s license. Anyone born that long ago would be at least 88 years old. There needs to be some other form of ID that is usable at the polls other than driver’s licenses.
but it’s still doable and you have years to do it because we all know exactly when the elections will be.
Years? An election is held every year. Counting the primaries, every six months. So if they don’t want to miss any elections, they only have months to obtain the proper ID. It is not okay to disenfranchise even for primaries. It is a violation of their Constitutional rights.
The worse problem is election day not being on a Sunday and not treated as a holiday, but even that is remedied somewhat by early voting in states where that’s applicable.
I could understand making election day a holiday, but Sunday? Why Sunday? Why not Saturday?