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Originally posted by Beautiful Liar
My intentions aren't to offend people it's just shocking and alarming that grown people are walking around unidentified and low key blaming the system as their reasoning. What if something happens to them? Or we get attacked and they need to know who are among injured? Or a strong storm hits and FEMA comes to rescue us?
Morally how can you the unidentified person just not do anything about it.
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Your mistake is assuming people are doing nothing when it's actually most people attempting to gain ID or means to do so and being stopped or disenfranchised while doing so. There's a reason why Republicans support these rules to begin with, because it exploits the way people are disenfranchised and hurts them even more by taking away their vote so they can't vote in politicians who will go to bat for them and support them.
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Nine states’ voter ID laws may create substantial barriers to voting and possible disenfranchisement for over 25,000 transgender voters this November. Strict photo ID states require voters to present government-issued photo identification in order to vote. Transgender voters who have transitioned from their assigned sex at birth to live full-time in a different gender face unique challenges to obtaining accurate government-issued identification.
According to the new Williams Institute report, 41 percent of transgender citizens who have transitioned reported not having an updated driver’s license and 74 percent did not have an updated U.S. passport. Moreover, 27 percent of transgender citizens who have transitioned reported that they had no identity documents or records that list their current gender. People of color, youth, students, those with low incomes, and respondents with disabilities are likely to be disproportionately impacted.
The 25,000 transgender voters who will face these barriers would have otherwise been eligible to vote in the following nine states in the November 2012 general election: Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. All of these states have passed strict photo ID laws and could have them in place for the November election.
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From 2012 -
http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.ed...gender-voters/
Also, this seems important:
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When presenting identification that didn’t accurately reflect their gender, many transgender
respondents reported being harassed (41%), being asked to leave the venue where they
presented the identification (15%), and being assaulted or attacked (3%).
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People are presenting evidence and studies to you that shows years of evidence that voter ID laws may not be INHERENTLY bad, but in the context of how America is CURRENTLY regarding racism, classism, transphobia, ableism, etc. they just don't work because there's a blind-spot that Republicans are exploiting to further disenfranchise the most marginalized already.
If you can't see why voter ID laws, especially ones that require PHOTO IDs, are not working, even when shown constant examples, because you don't believe people's motives or actions, there's no point in discussing this with you because you've made up your mind already regardless of facts. You're refusing to acknowledge the nuances of the situation because it may not directly affect you or anyone you personally know.
This is an issue that is literally affecting tons of marginalized communities around the entire country, so I don't know how anyone in their right mind or aware of the facts could even begin to deny the harm that's happening.
You keep bringing up how the homeless can get free identification, but you do know there's a wide gray area between being well-off and being homeless, right? Not everyone living in poverty is homeless. It reads like some of you don't even know a single poor person struggling in life.
When are these people meant to find the time to go get their IDs, pay for them, pay for or even find transportation to the departments that are usually in the middle of nowhere? And even then those who do all this vote for a candidate who doesn't make due on most of their promises. Ignoring voter disillusionment is dumb when it affects the most oppressed voters, just like voter ID laws. The "pro-voter ID" law people in here just read like people who blame people for their oppression and it's not a good look.
You mention Dems only focusing on NC, yet similar laws disenfranchising Native Americans in ND are being battled too. Just because you're ignorant to the facts doesn't mean the facts change.
