First things first, I don't doubt it is a bad thing, considering who supports it and who doesn't.

But my question is what exactly is the issue and what is the current and proposed voting process when it comes to IDs?

Here in my EU country, you have to show some version of a government ID, be it an ID card, drivers license or passport. And we don't have to pre-register to vote.

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[–] 15 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Not an american, but I've seen this asked before and from what I remember a lot of it was about what counts as valid ID (as the US doesn't have national ID cards like we do in EU countries), and the potential that the ID required would purposely be something hard to get to various communities that are discriminated against, in an attempt to "rig the vote" as it were

Someone from the US probably has a better phrased explanation tho

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    its a barrier to targeting POCs and impoverished communities, aka mostly black areas. also you have to take off time to get the id card from dmv, or another agency. plus conservatives areas use all sorts of other voter suppression tricks, to invalidate the id anyways.

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