Why Is It That People Think That Requiring A Valid I.D. To Vote Is Racist And Oppressive?

Question

I dont get it, do you have some insight that would help me to understand?

Answer 1

The arugement is that poor people and minorites don't have drivers license or state ID cards.

If there was ever a racial remark that is one in my book, since most people have or can get an ID card or a drivers licence.
It is required for most welfare ( so the poorest of the people will always have them)

But it is really a way to keep allowing illegal aliens and dead people to vote. Or to have people appear at the court house using names of others to vote.

for example if I knew your real name and where you lived, I could go to your polling place early that morning and vote for you.
And I could do that over and over again in various places all day.

Answer 2

Think ID fees should be waived for poor to meet this requirement... its a good idea but the cost is too much for poorest people to bear.

My opinion... a dye mark [i.e. right thumb on special ink pad] can prevent a person from voting more than one time.

Since a majority of some groups are very poor, this could be looked at as adverse to those groups [or a "racist" policy].
Think the word "racist" is being used too broadly at times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
The term racist, when used to describe someone who supports racism, has been a pejorative term since at least the 1940s, and the identification of a group or person as racist is nearly always controversial. Examples of alleged "racist" groups follows -

Allegedly racist groups
Aryan Nations[29]
Black Hebrew Israelites[30]
British National Party[31]
Christian Identity[32] [33]
The Creativity Movement (formerly The World Church of the Creator)[34]
Front National[35]
Grey Wolves[36][37][38]
Gray Wolves
Imperium Europa[39]
Jewish Defense League
Kahane Chai
Ku Klux Klan[40] [41]
Nation of Aztlán[42][43][44][45]
The Nation of Gods and Earths
Nation of Islam
National Alliance[46]
National Socialist Japanese Workers and Welfare Party
New Zealand National Front[47]
Patriotic Youth League[48]
Posse Comitatus[49]
Stormfront.org
United Malays National Organisation
White Aryan Resistance[50]
New Black Panthers


Many sub-groups within races among the 300 millions of United States/American citizens have just as hard a time getting together funds to pay for new IDs - just to vote. Could be an exclusionary policy if you look at the fact you also have to produce other special types of documents [sometimes certified] to get a valid ID. The whole ID process can become cost prohibitive to many thus excluding a class more so than a race from voting.

The impact of voter requirements [i.e. ID] on racial groups varies and has been used in the past to exclude some groups of voters.

Answer 3

Well, one of the requirements of exercising your privilege to vote in this country, is that you have to be an American citizen, and you have to have established residency for a certain period of time. Also, you have to be of majority age. In order to prove that you are eligible to vote, you have to have a valid identification. It's as simple as that. There is nothing racist or opressive about it that I can see. What do you think?

The answer given by the person before me is incorrect. You must have a birth certificate in order to obtain the proper identification. A driver's license or state I.D. card has your photograph on it. There is no way you can successfully alter those cards, or pass yourself off as someone else. Even if that were possible, it would be illegal. Your vote would be invalid and you could possibly face criminal charges if you were caught impersonating someone else.

Answer 4

I doubt that anyone could seriously think that... How do you get 'Racist and Oppressive' from 'Valid I.D needed to vote'? Only an idiot (no offence) would think that? Could you write a little more? What led to this rubbish heap of words? What was the person's reasoning?

Answer 5

It's not racist or oppressive. It's the right thing to do to avoid cheating.
Why are our kids required an ID before buying beer or a pack of cigarettes?
Why do they check our Driver's License when we pay for a purchase with a check or a credit card?
Why not with voting, when it is a most sacred thing in expressing your political will?

Answer 6

Because in the past various 'restrictions' were placed on people to vote, usually to exclude them.
For example, owning property, being able to sign their name, passing a test, being male, being white.

The problem is that everyone is guaranteed a right to vote. Any "valid I.D." requirement adds additional constraints on the right to vote. While 95% of people have "valid I.D.'s" in the form of a driver's license, you should not HAVE to have one in order to vote.
There is also the problem of "What is a valid I.D.?" and "Who is the authority to check whether it is authentic or not?"

Answer 7

It is mostly because dems in some locations that have a large population of illegal immigrants want to be able to round said immigrants up, coerce them to vote dem, and give them a ride to the polls (after a nice meal). If we required a picture ID, this would be impossible. Because there is no rational argument against requiring a picture ID to vote, they play the classic dem trump card of racism.

Answer 8

Because people do not understand that it is not about color or race, its about fairness. You don't want a person voting in 3 or more different districts, you dont want them voting in more than one state, and you dont want someone that is not a legal citizen of the US voting, (although I dont know if that counts for people over here on Visas). Con artists have away of getting around all of this.

Answer 9

Yes, because a whole lot of people voted for dead people
in past elections. The photo ID would quickly do away
with this happening. They were mostly Democrats, so
it is the Democrats that will do anything to get the most
Democratic votes.

Answer 10

I can't imagine not having to have a valid ID to vote. If you did not then you could go vote hundreds of times using names of people from the grave yard or phone book, or court records.