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88% of US voters say a driver’s license should be an acceptable form of photo ID if photo ID is required for voting (ballotpedia.org)
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[-] joshisanonymous@h4.io 0 points 1 day ago

@ArcaneSlime @dmention7 There is evidence that minority groups are less likely to have IDs, but the results of ID requirements appear to be mainly reduced participation by all groups and only disproportionately reduced participation by Latinxs. (Disclaimer: I don't know if this is a robust result or only this one study.)

Darrah-Okike, J., Rita, N., & Logan, J. R. (2021). The Suppressive Impacts of Voter Identification Requirements. Sociological Perspectives, 64(4), 536–562.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 day ago

And yet it works in most other countries, including 46 out of 47 European countries? The US is one of the few outliers in the world that does not require it, most do, and you're telling me nobody in most of the world votes?

And "latinx?" These countries also all have voter ID already (though those countries also hate the term "latinx"):

Barbados Belize Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Trinidad and Tobago Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela

Copied and pasted list, I know some of those aren't "latinx" but I gotta run so no time to prune.

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