r/nottheonion • u/MORaHo04 • 29d ago

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/Narren_C 29d ago

I'll never understand why this is so controversial. You need an ID to do anything, who are these people in society that don't have one?

I've been a police officer for many years. I speak from experience when I say that virtually everyone carries an ID. Elderly people have them, young adults have them, homeless people have them. Everyone has one because you need one for so many things.

If someone is indigent then I have no issue with them being able to obtain an ID for free, so if that's the hang up then we can require that as an attachment to voter ID laws.

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u/powercow 29d ago

Because republicans are doing it because minorities and young people are the least likely to have one. In my state, 30% of voting age black males do NOT have an ID valid for an election. and its also why republicans will allow gun licenses but not college ids.

and remember this same party that says the DMV is legit enough to give you an ID to vote with, demand you cant register to vote at the DMV.

they have been threatening to do a national voter ID act to get dems votes on certain things since the 80s.

we dont have an in person voting fraud problem.. we do have a voter purging problem.

Republicans solely push voter ID because twice as many black people than white people are missing one and the very next largest group without an ID are the under 25, especially today with all the E bikes and the expense of getting a car.

Also its kinda horseshit you need an ID for everything, in rural areas, where most black people dont have an id, every bar tender knows them because they were there when they were born. and if you dont have an ID you can also get shit from friends. and believe it or not the poor dont fly a lot. Its kinda crazy how 30% of voting age, drinking aged black people in my state, can live just fine without an ID, with the sole exception of voting. and in some of our rural areas, the DMV is open one day a month.

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u/poopshipdestroyer 29d ago

It’s classist to refuse to believe that it can be difficult for the poor to get an ID