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I'm a conservative. I don't mind the liberal stuff here. It's good to learn the other side, but I don't want a liberal echo chamber. I'd like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?

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[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I live in a country where identification is required for voting and it doesn't feel restrictive. On the contrary, I'm glad someone can't just vote in my name.

[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the US the largest group of people without id's are Democrats and black.

It's literally making the system more racist.

[–] YaaAsantewaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 1 year ago

Every black person has an ID, you have to otherwise you can't do anything anyways. I have never met anyone in my community who doesn't have some form of ID that's valid in elections.

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So the question is, why doesn't everyone have IDs? How does the country identify its citizens?

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

IDs cost money, require visits to DMVs (which conservatives work hard to shut down in poor areas, or other fuckery with their hours or such), and if you want the federal level one cost more and require more paperwork

We use the garbage and not-designed-for-this social security number for major IDing

[–] Hobbes@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because the republicans work very hard to make it difficult for people who would likely vote democrat.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

If you got an ID sent to you when you turned $AGE I'd support requiring it to vote. But any proposal of free/automatic IDs gets shouted down by fanatics who think it's the mark of the beast from Revelations. It's a non-starter.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In my country:

  • We have a mandatory national ID
  • Having it automatically registers you as a voter after 16 y.o.
  • Voting is mandatory between 18 and 70.
  • We vote on Sundays to ensure everyone can go.
  • Voting in always in person. We usually use schools to that end, windows are obscured to ensure secrecy.
  • We record who voted following the electoral registry. Only the last issued national ID is valid to vote.
[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 year ago

Not such: we're in Latin America and we have a multitude of other problems.