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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.
But this idea of his about millions of illegal voters is just crazytalk! I'm sure a VERY small number of people did illegally vote (likely done by mistake, for example they have the same name as a deceased person, or they somehow voted in the wrong electoral district by stupidity of themselves and the polling officers).
Seems like he is really making hay with his campaign promises... for good or bad.
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In 2013 the Supreme Court effectively ruled that racism isn't an issue anymore, and this has paved the way for states to re-draw their voting districts, and in the case of North Carolina and Texas, courts found that these re-drawings unconstitutionally targeted poor black voting districts.
In addition the increased regulations have made it more difficult for poor minority voters to be able to vote. Some of the changes that have been made include closing voting registration offices, moving them to isolate poor neighbourhoods and making it harder to register to vote. They also charge for ID which is a cost that many don't want to make.
There's a lot of information on this topic, but the key of it is pinned to the gutting of the VRA in 2013. They're making it harder to vote and the claim is that there is massive voter fraud, but the reality is that there are maybe 3-4 documented cases for true voter fraud and this is in the entire election.
It's basically touted as being a major issue, and it's really not. In fact you probably have more cases of voter fraud in state legislature than you do in public voting.