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I don't even know what Republican talking points are. I'm commenting from a Scandinavian perspective in which a photo/biometric ID plus your voter card that gets mailed to your address is required to vote.
I'm not saying that the proposed legislagion is good or bad. I'm saying that if it genuinely is difficult for Americans to acquire proper ID then that's a deeper problem that you should address first.
You need IDs to vote in the US as well. Most people register to vote when they get their ID, and for most people, that is your Driver's License or State ID card. Those already have your information.
The issues here are they are tightening the ID requirements. Most people in the US dont have passports. In addition, the changes they are making require you to have the passport match your birth certificate. If you get married and take your spouse's last name, and have that on your passport, you now do not have a valid voter ID.
This is an easy way to wipe off quite a lot of women, minorities, and poor people from the voting rolls.
Right, I get it. You have photo IDs (supposedly with chips?) but that's not necessarily enough to prove citizenship. What should be enough for voting is a voter's card coupled with the photo ID. And it sounds like that's what you have now.
The ID that we currently have specifically do prove citizenship and your eligibility to vote. And again, are checked against the voter registration roll.
If that's the case then there really shouldn't be any reason to complicate it further.
Which is why republicans are complicating it further. And why you're defending their actions.