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Because more and more people hate his guts with the fury of a thousand women scorned.
And for good reason.
Martial law in October. Get out or buy a gun
The best time to get out was last year. The next best time is now.
I am from a country in which you normally take your ID document with you and cast your vote in person. All the millions of us do it, and the afternoon of that day we have the total count of votes. It is a very straightforward process.
I am not supporting Trump, really, but why would the implementation of this be a negative thing?
How do you get your ID document? Does it cost a lot to get? Does any official look at perfectly valid ID and say "I don't think that's real, so you don't get to vote"?
We have no national ID here, the closest thing to prove citizenship is a passport but people are not required to have one, and it is expensive. For most people, the only definitive proof of citizenship they have is their original birth certificate.
That is why here, in the US, when politicians push Voter ID laws it's mainly to disenfranchise poor people.
I once hard (here) that people in USA is kind of against having an ID document.
It ended up anyway giving them one of the crappiest IDs in any country: SSNs
to answer your questions: it is super cheap (~5 US dollars), fast, has many security systems, it is quickly verifyable agains government databases, it has a photo, your signature, and, if valid, nobody will question it.
It looks like a mini version of the plastic card in mdern pastports (of the size of a credit card)
The police can stop you and without probable cause ask you for your ID (and car/driving documents if in a car), check it against the national database, and give it back to you. You have to show it (required by law) and it is your responsibility (if you are over 18) to keep it with you. The intention is to catch people with pending charges or arrest orders and stuff. If you are not hiding from the law, it is a simple, civilized interaction that would take you 2~5 mins.
You know, the kind of things that you would expect from a 3rd world country, less developed than USA.
SSN isn't proof of anything except eligibility for Social Security benefits. Yes, the system is abused to cover for the lack of a national ID, but it isn't an ID.
This is proof of citizenship. Not drivers license or proof of age. Passport, birth cert plus supporting, citizenship cert and supporting. Discrepancy between the latter two options resulting from change of name could disqualify voters.
"Nine percent of American citizens, or approximately 21 million people, don’t have ready access to citizenship documents."
Then you have my country where you enroll to vote, which requires id, lasts forever and you only have to update your address. On the day the volunteer looks up my given name on a ledger for my area, asks for my address and phone number, then explains how to write my vote.
Because the hoops they make you jump through to get one are fucking ridiculous.
I'm a US citizen. I was a born here. I have a driver's license and a US-issued passport. Both of these are current and I had to prove citizenship to get the passport.
I'm still not able to legally vote in my state, though, because the law now requires that my driver's license, which doesn't expire for 4 years, have a Gold Star on it. No gold star, you can't vote.
I now have to make an appointment and drive to a licensing station in another city to get my Gold Star license in order to vote. I have to bring my still-valid passport, two pieces of mail, and a copy of my birth certificate. I can't even vote in a primary if I don't do that first.
I was born here, I haven't changed my name or moved, this is just the law now. They just really don't want people to be able to vote.