Nearly 21 million voting-age U.S. citizens do not have a current (non-expired) driver’s license. Just under 9%, or 20.76 million people, who are U.S. citizens aged 18 or older do not have a non-expired driver’s license. Another 12% (28.6 million) have a non-expired license, but it does not have both their current address and current name.
replyAdditionally, just over 1% of adult U.S. citizens do not have any form of government-issued photo identification, which amounts to nearly 2.6 million people.[1]
[1] https://cdce.umd.edu/sites/cdce.umd.edu/files/pubs/Voter%20I...
If 10% of drivers lacked car insurance, would your solution be to remove the legal requirement to possess a valid insurance policy to operate a motor vehicle because it discriminates against the poor?
replyNo. Because operating a motor vehicle is a very dangerous activity.
replyThis a very is a poor analogy that you have here.
The poor have a right to vote, while they don't have a right to operate a motor vehicle. We can debate over how disenfranchising it is to be unable to drive in the US (very), but the law makes a pretty clear distinction between these two activities.
replyIn many states these are available without proof of citizenship. When people say proof of citizenship they usually mean a passport or REALID.
replyMost state-issued Real IDs don't count as proof of citizenship under the SAVE Act.
replyhttps://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/will-save-act-allo...
Under the SAVE act, you kind of have to have a passport or don't vote in some states.
replyWhich is why I'm pretty sure it's not gonna pass. Both republicans and democrats depend heavily on mass votes from, let's just say, a lot of people who are, generally speaking, not the sort to have passports.
In the US, a driver license isn't a proof of citizenship. Also, state IDs are not accepted by federal agencies, so it probably wouldn't work as proof of citizenship on federal elections.
replyThere really are not federal elections. We call them that, but they are state elections for federal office.
replyFederal elections are all run by the individual states, so a state ID would be all you need.
replyIf there is a federal law requiring proof of citizenship, as is currently being argued in Congress, a state ID would not be all you need since they are not proof of citizenship.
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