US House Republicans fail to pass funding bill as shutdown approaches
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The funding bill was paired with an unrelated voting bill that would require Americans to provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote and require states to purge non-citizens from their registration lists
    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
      72·
      2 months ago

      Obviously it would be more secure if everyone was required to bring a paper form that they were given at their birth and most people don’t even have or a super expensive document that most people also don’t have. That would obviously prove that you’re allowed to vote because if you weren’t that would be too much of a hassle.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        We have document requirements to vote here.

        That document costs about 1 vente Americano every 4 months, but we pay it as a lump when we renew every 5 years.

        It also serves as our driver license, so at least that’s consolidated. And also our healthcare access card.

        It’s normalized here for us. It’s the only part of American voting that seems weird, instead of just inefficient.

        • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
          13·
          2 months ago

          There is already a requirement for a picture ID in most places I know of.

          The requirements were a birth certificate or passport.

          A passport costs like $300 so poor people don’t have them.

          Birth certificates get lost pretty easily and take a really long time to replace.

            • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
              0·
              2 months ago

              I’m currently getting passports for my whole family and it’s more than $30 each for us so idk. It’s also been a pain in the ass to assemble all the documents one of those being the birth certificate mentioned above that I had to pay I think around $50 to get processed and copies of mailed to me.

              Also even if it is just $30 that’s too much. That’s like a poll tax to add this requirement. $30 isn’t a lot to you maybe but for some people it is and that means those people wouldn’t get to vote. Having money is not a requirement to vote.

              Plus adding that requirement now if that is the intention, would make it so people wouldn’t have time to get these documents in time to vote in the next election.

              All this to fix a non-existent issue.

                • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 month ago

                  Ok but what’s wrong with the drivers license we already use to confirm our identity? Why do we need to switch documents now? Makes no sense.

                  Sorry but I just don’t see a reason to change something that isn’t broken

                  And yes registering to vote is stupid they know you are eligible that should be enough. It should be automatic but that wasn’t even something they suggested doing

                  The change isn’t to require ID. that change is to require a more obscure hard to come by ID so that less people can vote. They aren’t even hiding it. Why do you support that?

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
    413·
    2 months ago

    Isn’t this already a thing? I registered to vote like 30 years ago and I had to bring a birth certificate. Mountain from a molehill to incite the GOP base

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    Alabama passed a state version of this bill and the total amount of people in question was like 3,000

    Of which a major portion gained citizenship anyway, because the list is based on people who were flagged under non citizen status via tax reporting (ie mostly legal immigrants who hadn’t gotten their government ID yet).

    What a danger to democracy amirite