Voting regulation is not a power expressed to Congress (except as related to ensuring no bias in race, age, and gender), so his unilateral action has no basis in law. But, when has a basis in law ever applied to him? Lawful grounds such as ‘consent’ has never applied to him before. Why would it now?
Republicans keep pushing for voter ID, but it’s not even clear that it would disproportionately help the GOP anymore. Maybe in the past it did, because people who live in cities with public transportation are less likely to have drivers’ licenses. But the political realignment of the past decade has sorted mostly by education, with low educational attainment going very disproportionately Republican. So now they have the lion’s share of people who can’t get their shit together. Requiring ID for voting (or adding any additional hurdles) will possibly filter out more of their dummies than it does our urbanites.
He’s not even talking about using driver license because anyone can get one of those. No, he’s talking about proof of citizenship, which will disenfranchise wwwwaaaaayyyyy more people.
Do you know where your birth certificate is? No? Good luck.
Does your current name via marriage match what’s on the certificate? No. Get fucked ma’am. We need more
future wage slavesbabies anyway.Don’t have a passport? Sorry, but you’re disenfranchised!
Oh? You have everything squared away? Right this way Mr. Rich-man! You’re just the person we want to vote since you’ll probably vote for us.
Yes, requiring a birth certificate is even more onerous. Again, it’s not clear that this will help Republicans (assuming it ever makes into law). Of course some rich people still vote Republican, but I’m willing to bet that a higher percentage of the population that knows where their birth certificate is votes for Democrats now. Same thing for people who floss regularly, remember their parents’ birthdays, or know how to read a scatter plot.
I think the issue is you assume it will be enforced universally. It won’t. It will be dependent on the makeup of the district and the color of the individual voter. It will be up to individuals at polling stations (and any ICE present) whether ‘exceptions’ can be made for people that are ‘obviously citizens but forgot their ID’. Or whether a married woman’s name mismatch is an issue or not based on her skin/hair color and way of speaking. It’s going to be selectively enforced, by design
That would be clearly illegal. The courts have have to go along with it, in which case we have bigger problems
Right, but a birth certificate is just words on a papet. Republicans will say that is an insufficient link to the person holding it.
There aren’t enough people willing to go along with what would be required to bring this to fruition. Trump doesn’t get to decide who is allowed to vote.