Posted on 03/03/2024 11:46:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Super Tuesday voters in North Carolina and Arkansas will encounter stricter voter ID requirements when they head to the polls, as part of a wave of voter ID laws enacted across the country during the last four years.
Eight states have enacted voter ID laws since the 2020 election, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures: Arkansas, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio and Wyoming. The rash of new laws affects 29 million adults. One in six voters live in anticipated 2024 battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — with new ID requirements.
Voter ID requirements are not inherently unpopular, and a recent Pew Research Center poll found more than 8 in 10 Americans supported requiring government-issued photo identification for voting.
Many of the recent ID laws gained momentum after former President Donald Trump and his allies made repeated, unfounded claims that voter fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 election.
Voting rights advocates say strict ID laws have had a direct effect on voter turnout and disproportionately deter low-income people and people of color from voting.
“The policy of voter ID is responding to a problem that is not there, and so we have to be skeptical as to why states would put these policies in place if the justification for them is lacking,” said Eliza Sweren-Becker, senior counsel at the Brennan Center.
Sweren-Becker added that the barriers to voting created by ID laws are “part and parcel of an overall effort to make it harder for Americans to participate” in elections.
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Voting rights advocates say strict ID laws have had a direct effect on voter turnout and disproportionately deter low-income people and people of color from voting.
yep, those people of color and low income aren’t capable of having an id and voting for them selves.
Do these laws apply only to primaries, or also the general?
This is good to hear that a number of states are doing things for voter integrity.
But expect more stories of how certain people were allegedly denied the right to vote.
And if Trump wins the general election, a flood of such stories will be unleashed in thr mainstream media.
The only battleground state to increase voter ID requirements was North Carolina. The rest will still cheat.
I.D. doesn’t matter if voting-by-mail is allowed.
NBC trying to make you believe the election won’t be stolen. 😆
Yet they need to present or obtain valid I.D. for government services and benefits. Do those just dissolve after use?
The democrats are saying “people of color” aren’t smart enough to get personal ID...
will encounter stricter voter ID requirements
1. GOOD!
2. Not so strict...just about anything with your name on it except a note from Mom can be used....
This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^.
How many millions vote using RCV-enabled electronic voting machines...?
Real videos have shown many MAILED IN ballots without creases.
Lots more proof but the ‘BRANDON the LIEING KING’ and his cabal deny any wrong doing and get away with it.
unfortunately more than 200 million of us need to
Same ID that you need drive a car, buy and license a car, cash a check, buy cigarettes,
booze, a lottery ticket, your “medical” Mary Jane, open a bank account, board a plane, unless you’re an illegal “migrant”...
We know that a lot of those laws were implemented by entities
that were not the legislatures of the 50 states.
Why the Republican party didn’t challenge those changes has
always baffled me, but it has contributed to the reality
that the Republican party has been out to lunch on much of
the treachery foisted off on this nation by the Left.
Our old guard needs to be dumped and replaced with folks who
actually know what our values are.
Well said.
Unfounded claims? My arse. Biden is illegit and a fraud.
I really wasn't worried much about vote fraud in these states to begin with except maybe Ohio and North Carolina, so the impact is minimal.
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