r/nottheonion • u/MORaHo04 • May 02 '24

Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections
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u/BallsackMessiah 29d ago edited 29d ago

  1. Some states allow social security cards as ID when voting.

  2. All states that require photo ID allow you to use a Voter ID. Each of these states allow you to get a Voter ID for free. Most of these states allow you to get a Voter’s ID online.

You are spreading misinformation.

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u/Diarygirl 29d ago

You're spreading the idea that elections can be rigged. It's the same bullshit for the past seven years, all because your guy is the world's biggest sore loser.

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u/BallsackMessiah 29d ago edited 29d ago

You're spreading the idea that elections can be rigged.

Can you tell me where I said that?

It's the same bullshit for the past seven years, all because your guy is the world's biggest sore loser.

I voted for Clinton in 2016 and Biden in 2020.

all because your guy is the world's biggest sore loser.

It was a popular sentiment among the left between 2017-2021 that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election. This is hardly a one-sided complaint about elections.

I find it a bit ironic that you would claim that elections can't possibly be rigged and state that Trump is a sore loser, meanwhile multiple states attempted to remove Trump from their ballots before he had been convicted of a federal crime in court. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, including people you hate.

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u/Diarygirl 29d ago

It is one-sided though. The Republicans are the only ones that consistently lie about elections being rigged and why they insist we need voter ID. It's just a fact that if you say voter ID is necessary, it means you believe that elections are rigged because why else would you think ID is necessary?

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u/BallsackMessiah 29d ago

why else would you think ID is necessary?

To prevent fraud? Doesn't mean that I think each election is rigged, or that the 2020 election was rigged. But I still think that photo IDs should be implemented in order to prevent fraudulent votes. There's been over 1,000 convictions in voter fraud since 2000. This isn't an epidemic by any means, but it does happen, and it is possible.

It is one-sided though.

It's only one-sided right now because the year is 2024 and the Republicans lost the most recent election. It was one-sided in the opposite direction in 2017, and in 2001.

Not a lot of people who win an election are going to claim that they rigged it.

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u/Diarygirl 29d ago

You want a law to prevent a make-believe problem. It's a really weird reason to want a law.

And like I said, crying about fraud is strictly a Republican thing starting in 2016 when Trump lied about losing the popular vote. He was such a sore loser that he formed a federal commission to find 3 million illegal voters who all voted for Hillary. That's why it's a little bit surprising that people want to vote for the guy that's lied about two elections and is on trial right now for election fraud.