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elmer2 • today at 9:06 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

"Their ID requirements in Ohio blew back a similar way a few years ago. They made it extremely hard to vote without a driver's license, thinking it'd hit college kids, but it mostly hit retirees that no longer drive."

This just isn't true and has never been true. You can see the requirements here:

https://www.ohiosos.gov/elections/voter-ID-requirements

I'm not sure when you are talking about, but I have family that's voted in Ohio for decades and this was never an issue.

"It's almost like the republicans would be better off if they paid attention to their constitutional duties instead of just burning things down."

The problem is that Democrats won't do ANYTHING to stop potential cheating and then act dumb when you bring up actual ways to exploit the system.

Example one: Ballot harvesting. Judges allowed ballot harvesting in many states leading up to the Trump election, even though it is illegal. They also ignored signature verification rules during this time.

Example two: Voter ID. In every country in the world, you need ID to vote. Democrats have pushed to completely remove it for years.

Example three: Mail-in voting. Mail-in voting is fine. It should be setup so you need to request it for each election. It's too easy to get ballots for people that never wanted to vote in the first place and send it in. Reddit and social media have made it pretty easy to coordinate with strangers.

Example four: We've had a decade of voting machine vulnerabilities and exploits at Def Con and somehow all of the leading security researchers ignored this and/or removed mention of it on social media after the 2020 election. I witnessed Tweets getting deleted in realtime.

Trump originally proposed sane and reasonable protections, and those were squashed by Democrats. This is the result.

Ignoring these problems isn't helping our Democracy, even though you somehow think it gives your side an advantage.


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mikestew • today at 9:25 PM

Ah, the "rampant voter fraud" narrative. Which has been disproven time and again, including when Republicans go looking for it (see: Arizona).

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zarify • today at 9:10 PM

> Example two: Voter ID. In every country in the world, you need ID to vote. Democrats have pushed to completely remove it for years.

Would just like to point out that here in .au you don’t need ID to vote (as in to show up and cast your vote, not talking about registering).

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Danox • today at 9:47 PM

Most of the cheating historically happens in the American South and that cheating, making it harder for people to vote continues to be a time-honored tradition in that part of the United States still.

Donald Trump and the current Republican Party does not care about anything other than winning at all cost. And if they don’t win, they will cry like Little Lord Fauntleroy.

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expedition32 • today at 9:14 PM

Voter ID was an issue in my country. By law everyone has to carry valid ID on them at all times.

But it is considered vital that every citizen gets the chance to vote including homeless people so they had to find a compromise. Although ofcourse the number of hobos who want to vote is largely theoretical.

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