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In reply to the discussion: What is wrong with requiring a picture ID to vote? [View all]gcomeau
(5,764 posts)Taking time off work to go and do it when you live paycheck to paycheck and live in a "right to work" state where they might fire you just for not coming in if your boss happens to be a prick? That free too?
Transportation to wherever you have to go to get the ID issued? Also free? For some people the nearest place isn't near.
The republicans know all this. And they know that their voters tend to be more well off and for them they'll have ID anyway so this means nothing to them. A lot of them can't even process that it might be a problem to get one of these IDs. But for the people on the bottom rung of the ladder it can be a serious inconvenience, easily rising to the level of discouraging them from voting at all. WHICH IS THE ENTIRE POINT.