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Originally Posted by REDVAN
I agree that tightening voting regulations is a good thing. I don't understand the whole issue I suppose (and why some people have called it racist), but I firmly believe you should have to show some sort of government ID to vote. In Canada, you had to at the last election. In our last provincial election you didn't have to (but you did have to swear an oath saying you were who you said you were and etc) and that doesn't even make sense. For civic elections it doesn't even matter.
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The bolded isn't correct at all. A bus pass and a utility bill is enough to satisfy Canadian ID requirements. As are a ton of other options as you can see in the link above.
To me, any time you make it more difficult for people to vote there has to be a compelling reason. If there's little to no evidence of voter fraud with existing ID requirements, then why make them more stringent? Obviously Republicans want to because it suppresses voters who tend to favor the Democratic Party, but that's just partisanship. I can't think of a single reason how the public or democracy is served by making it harder for people to vote.