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The net effect would be to deny a huge number of Americans the ability to cast a ballot.
The net effect would be to deny a huge number of Americans the ability to cast a ballot.
From the outside, if this can be done, I would have thought this would impact Red States more than Blue
I’m sure they’ll follow it up with an exec order on who will be eligible for a passport in the future. They could just send a passport to every supporter free of charge and make them incredibly tedious to obtain for everybody else. Looks like they’re planning to do the latter anyway.
They’re already doing it to trans people. If they succeed there, they’ll just widen the criteria until anyone that is unlikely to vote for them is going to be ineligible.
you already need another way to prove you are a citizen in order to get a passport.
So you can just use that proof to register to vote, this is already how it works. This proposal literally solves nothing, it would only prevent people from voting who happen to forget the document day of and wouldn’t stop anyone who is voting fraudulently anyway ( a birth certificate is significantly easier to forge than a passport and the 95 year old lady with coke bottle classes checking you in at the polls won’t know any better anyway)
Making it harder to get a passport won’t mean much unless they also make it harder to register to vote, at which point, you don’t need this proposal or to make it more difficult to get the passport.