Karl
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Since you chose to ignore previous explanations of what is wrong with it, what is wrong with inter-cranial RF ID chip implant at birth? I mean, after all, why not get this ID thing behind us once and for all?What is wrong with requiring someone to prove who they are before they vote in the person's name they claim to be? [...]
This is why one should not interject items of a personal nature into an internet forum, for it forces me to note that it sounds like you are doing your students a grave disservice by presenting them with such a shallow and incomplete picture of the voting process in the U.S., clearly based upon your personal bias (refusal to address all the issues involved).I asked this question to my adult students last week and every single one of them, EVERY ONE, was incredulous that you can vote in the United States without showing an identification.
Hopefully they will independently research the matter and discover that in most cases, some type of identification is required during either the registration or voting process. Hopefully, during that research they will also run across explanations and examples of caging lists and other types of voter disenfranchisement schemes that are continually plotted by one particular political party in a clear effort to stymie those citizens who generally tend to vote for the other political party. Then, with a more rounded picture of the situation, they can begin to understand how a govt-issued photo ID requirement can be a barrier, in one fashion or another, to some perfectly legal voters (such as one elderly woman who was refused a govt photo ID because she lost her marriage certificate).... a barrier that, by all estimation, would prevent many, many more legal votes than illegal votes (which, for the most part, don't even exist as a result of ID issues).