re: #11 Obdicut

If you make it extremely easy to get ID, you make it extremely easy to commit that same small scale fraud to get that ID.

I don’t see why. I see no evidence for this. A person should get off their ass, gather the necessary documents and present them to the officials. It’s extremely easy and it minimizes fraud.

And that is far worse for the citizen than voting in their name out of spite (which, again, doesn’t happen on any significant scale.)

It shouldn’t happen on any preventable scale.

would be. If you make that ID difficult to obtain, then it’s an effective poll tax.

It should be free in terms of money. Otherwise, yes, it will require a minor effort of gathering documents and going to some office.

Sure. But then are you going to roll back the ability to use absentee ballots, too? They’re something millions of Americans who are too busy, travelling during voting season, homebound, or otherwise unable to get to the polls, too?

Oh, I’m sure something can be done in this case too.