Wednesday, February 04, 2026

80+% of Americans support voter ID; Why dont Democrats?

I know this poll is a couple of years old, but it's results still havent changed. 76% of U.S. adults favor the concept of early voting. Two other election law policies are supported by even more Americans -- requiring photo identification to vote (84%) and providing proof of citizenship when registering to vote for the first time (83%). Smaller majorities of Americans -- 60% each -- favor automatic voter registration, whereby citizens are registered when they do business with state agencies such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, and sending absentee ballot applications to all eligible voters.

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80+% of Americans support voter ID; Why dont Democrats?

Because we know how the GOP will then immediately make it next to impossible for those they disfavor to get those voter IDs.

Along those same lines, I bet huge majorities of the population believe that only literate people should be able to vote. It makes sense, right? Since someone who is too dumb to read probably shouldn't be able to tell the rest of us how to live by electing our leaders?

Hey Boaz, why don't you take this literacy test and let us know how you do: Louisiana Literacy Test

Below are just the first six questions, there's another 24 just like them. One wrong answer and you don't get to vote. You've got 10 minutes for those 30 questions. 20 seconds a question. Seems like plenty. Start!

Literacy-Test

From The Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University

#1 | Posted by censored at 2026-02-04 09:28 AM

Because we know how the GOP will then immediately make it next to impossible for those they disfavor to get those voter IDs.

#1 | POSTED BY CENSORED

Amen.

Also to point out that Federal agents don't accept legal and valid identifications when they don't want to.

ICE proves that every day. Even a passport won't save you from arrest.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-04 09:33 AM

Because we know how the GOP will then immediately make it next to impossible for those they disfavor to get those voter IDs.

Bullshit.

Oh, your illegals? They shouldnt be getting the voter ID's anyway.

#3 | Posted by boaz at 2026-02-04 09:54 AM

Boaz: Who wrote your intro? Please give credit. Who is the I here?

I know this poll is a couple of years old, but it's results still havent changed. 76% of U.S. adults favor the concept of early voting. Two other election law policies are supported by even more Americans -- requiring photo identification to vote (84%) and providing proof of citizenship when registering to vote for the first time (83%). Smaller majorities of Americans -- 60% each -- favor automatic voter registration, whereby citizens are registered when they do business with state agencies such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, and sending absentee ballot applications to all eligible voters.

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-02-04 10:06 AM

BEcaUsE iTs RAcIsT!
~ Lumpers

Its amazing to me this "first world" country doesn't have a card for its citizens to vote, and get benefits.

Third world! But hey at least us immigrants can take advantage of it.


Smaller majorities of Americans -- 60% each -- favor automatic voter registration, whereby citizens are registered when they do business with state agencies such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, and sending absentee ballot applications to all eligible voters.

Younger people don't drive, nor do they drink. The days of DMV and ID's being important to people are over.

So now what are you going to do? Only favor the rich dunks?

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-04 10:34 AM

>Because we know how the GOP will then immediately make it next to impossible for those they disfavor to get those voter IDs.

[Bullsheet].
#3 | Posted by boaz

Because the example I gave of people doing exactly that in the past with Jim Crow laws is a figment of our collective imagination?

And because the GOP didn't immediately try to do exactly that a couple years ago?

Alabama Closing Many DMV Offices in Majority Black Counties
After Alabama put into effect a tougher voter ID law, the state shuttered 31 driver's license offices due to a budget crisis. The closures will cut off access to one of the few types of IDs accepted.
eight of the 10 Alabama counties with the highest percentage of non-white registered voters saw their driver's license offices closed.
www.governing.com October 02, 2015,
But what are you going to believe? Your dogmatic refusal to accept political strategy realities, or your lying eyes?

#6 | Posted by censored at 2026-02-04 10:49 AM

people doing exactly that in the past with Jim Crow laws

1960 would like their victimhood back.

We dont worry about Jim Crow laws anymore.

Racism is dead, at least to blacks no longer on the Democrat Plantation.

#7 | Posted by boaz at 2026-02-04 10:51 AM

We dont worry about Jim Crow laws anymore.
Yes, because they are now illegal, until the GOP SCOTUS says they are not

Racism is dead
#7 | Posted by boaz

That's some funny stuff! You're either completely disconnected from reality or a troll. Probably a bit from each column.

Post 9/11 Hate Crime Trends: Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Jews in the U.S. (2013)
harvard.edu
And it doesn't have to be racism. It can just be about making sure that people who will vote against them, regardless of their skin color, have a harder time getting IDs. Take a look at the map below and try to figure out which offices you'd close to make sure certain people can't vote.

Georgia-2020-Map

#8 | Posted by censored at 2026-02-04 11:02 AM

No one is trying to make sure someone doesnt vote.

It's not the 60's anymore. I know you liberals need that to make your platform.

But it's not like that anymore. It's played out.

#9 | Posted by boaz at 2026-02-04 11:09 AM

#9

Needs to do a tour of Southern Red states... you know, the GOP wage slave plantations that suck money from blue states.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-04 11:12 AM

No one is trying to make sure someone doesnt vote.

#9 | Posted by boaz

Boaz in his safe little news bubble again. Willful ignorance.

Boaz, unlike Bellringer or STD or LHT, you don't come across as a troll. I think you're entirely sincere.

And that's frightening.

#11 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-02-04 11:29 AM

"your illegals? They shouldnt be getting the voter ID's anyway."

They don't. And study after study shows illegals voting is rarer than hen's teeth.

Why? ONE vote will not have any effect on the outcome, other than to get them deported.

Also, we have over 80% of the states with the outcome already known. What's the point of ONE illegal vote, either way, in California? Or in Utah? Or ~40 other states?

#12 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-04 11:33 AM

"No one is trying to make sure someone doesnt vote."

Nonsense.

Every additional barrier to voting is an additional barrier to voting.

In-person, day-of, is the easiest to suppress: construction, bus line interruptions, lane closures, long lines, fewer precincts...all are suppression tactics.

And more votes get suppressed that way than ALL the Heritage Foundation vote fraud convictions put together.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-04 11:36 AM

No one is trying to make sure someone doesnt vote.
#9 | Posted by boaz

Really?

Florida Bans Voting Rights of Over 960,000 Citizens
The overwhelming majority of this group, nearly 730,000 Florida citizens, have completed their sentence
www.sentencingproject.org
20% of Black men in Florida can't vote because they had been convicted of felonies. And when the people of Florida passed an amendment to restore their voting rights, the GOP changed the law to require that they must first pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to get that right back, even after doing their time in prison.

Pretty strange behavior for a "no one is trying to make sure someone doesn't vote" country.

#14 | Posted by censored at 2026-02-04 12:23 PM

No one is trying to make sure someone doesnt vote.
#9 | Posted by boaz

It's sad how brainwashed you are.
I bet you know juuust a little bit that you're wrong, but you're too proud and too big and strong and manly to admit that.

Seriously. It's common knowledge. There's even a Wikipedia article about it .
Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 United States presidential election
en.wikipedia.org
Following the 2020 United States presidential election and the unsuccessful attempts by Donald Trump and various other Republican officials to overturn it, Republican lawmakers initiated a sweeping effort to make voting laws more restrictive within several states across the country.[2][3] According to the Brennan Center for Justice, as of October 4, 2021, more than 425 bills that would restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 states"with 33 of these bills enacted across 19 states so far.[4] The bills are largely centered around limiting mail-in voting, strengthening voter ID laws, shortening early voting, eliminating automatic and same-day voter registration, curbing the use of ballot drop boxes, and allowing for increased purging of voter rolls.[5][6] Republicans in at least eight states have also introduced bills that would give lawmakers greater power over election administration after they were unsuccessful in their attempts to overturn election results in swing states won by Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election.[7][8][9][10] The efforts garnered press attention and public outrage from Democrats, and by 2023 Republicans had adopted a more "under the radar" approach to achieve their goals.[11]

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-04 12:33 PM

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