Each Day the US Weakens Itself
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What fraction of those in the Congress do you think will lose their seat over this?
There is a simple truth in most politics: if there isn’t a draft, or there hasn’t been an attack on the homeland, foreign policy is not a top-of-mind issue. This is unfortunately a recurring problem for empires, who can afford to keep conflict far from their shores.
Of course magically rapture the same folk from political power and Washington would be instantly devastated by the air rushing in to fill the resulting vacuum in all three branches.
Thankfully that will never happen.
And it's a rather dubious way of polling on the question. Voters support voter ID in the abstract, but only a minority of voters support the currently-proposed law.
The way you implement voter ID matters a lot. It risks disenfranchising large groups of people, on zero evidence that there is a serious problem that needs solving. So Congress might be able to pass a voter ID law if they wrote it in a way that ensured people could vote, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that you wouldn't support such a law.
I'm also not for ballots without any verification. Ie, that the person that cast it is that person legitimately, and that they are not deceased.