> It’s a barrier for poor people to exercise their rights.
This is delusional. ID is required for so many daily activities and the price of an ID (if they charge for it) is less than $10.
This is delusional. ID is required for so many daily activities and the price of an ID (if they charge for it) is less than $10.
Also, poll taxes are unconstitutional in the US. $10 is more than $0.
When all those maybes line up you get inequality. This is well established behavior across the United States. If you want to learn more I suggest starting with this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
My thoughts on this have evolved over the years. I encourage you to dig deeper into this. Voter ID might not do or mean what you think it does.
Seems like that's the root cause or the main contention.
Reasons range from the practical / legal ones listed by the ACLU (https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-cards) to a small-but-vocal subset of voters who actually believe (because so much of the US is descended from Christian zealots fleeing persecution in their home countries for heterodoxy) that a card issued by your government that is required to participate in society is a literal "mark of the beast" as per the biblical Book of Revelations and therefore something to be resisted as part of a struggle against anti-Christendom.