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

Wednesday, February 04, 2026

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!

From The Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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

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

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 | Reply

>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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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.

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply