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So while plenty of Americans have driver's licenses or passports or other state-issued ID cards, the ones who don't are overwhelmingly going to be the poor. Who are, in a lot of cases, both minorities and Democrat voters. The U.S. has a nasty history of using seemingly reasonable requirements disenfranchise poor, minority voters.
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Pretty much this.
We do have this rather unpleasant history going back to the beginning of the country and has continued to the modern day.
Bush would never have been president if Florida hadn't used such a wide open net for it's felon list, stopping tens of thousands of people who should have been able to vote.
There would at least be a case if the republicans could show a sustained problem with voter fraud. But they can't. Even during the Bush admin where they had a vested interest in finding and prosecuting voter fraud they couldn't find any.
So Republicans are basically saying it's acceptable to stop untold numbers of legitimate voters from voting (who just happen to vote for their opponents) to solve a problem that doesn't appear to exist.
Republicans saying they want to stop fraud is like Jeffrey Dahmer saying he wants to make you a nice meal. Maybe he's being nice but....