Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

It is well-supported by actual research (e.g. [1]) AND by simple logic. Every single point you brought up has a clear counter argument - why didn't you respond to any of them? Have you simply never heard anyone mention them?

> It’s also just plainly offensive and racist to assume minorities can’t show the basic competency to obtain ID when you already need it for so many things.

It's plainly offensive and racist to ignore studies (e.g. [2]) that prove a higher percentage of minorities owns government issued photo ID compared to non-minorities. I'm not assuming anything, I'm only looking at statistics, at real people and data. You're instead attempting to move the conversation away from data.

> Where were these complaints when everyone, including minorities, had to show documentation around their vaccination status for various things?

First, such complaints did exist back then as well. Second, both vaccination and frequent testing were subsidized by the government, with extra investments towards minorities. Why don't advocates of voter ID ever make similar suggestions? Why not propose a program that allows any minority to acquire a government ID without any downsides, and once that's done propose voter ID?

> Why isn’t this issue in every other country that does require ID to vote in elections?

Because in pretty much every other developed country:

- there exist standardized, government issued IDs that are distributed to every citizen during normal government interactions (e.g. in Germany you must own government ID)

- poor people (a group that minorities make up a disproportionately large part of) have more free time and are in far less precarious positions regarding job security, and consequently health care

- poor people have a far easier time getting to government buildings (e.g. cities are less car-reliant, better public transport, better coverage of government buildings)

The US is in a very different position compared to most other countries. It’s just plainly offensive and racist to introduce additional barriers to basic rights while fully aware that the average person from minority groups will have to spend more time and effort to clear them.

I'm not going to spend time digging up research for every claim I've made unless you're willing to do the same for your positions. But since you've now been made aware that this "trope" does pass the slightest scrutiny, I'm looking forward to your response! Just to summarize, you'll have to explain how the disparate impact of additional barriers to voting isn't "plainly offensive and racist" given that:

- non-minorities are much more likely to own a government ID than minorities

- non-minorities on average have an easier time acquiring such ID

- non-minorities on average face fewer potential repercussions regarding work and health care acquiring such ID

[1] http://ippsr.msu.edu/research/voter-identification-laws-and-...

[2] https://www.voteriders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CDCE_V...

This is an intended feature, and it's exclusively a feature of one political party. The elections are always rigged, this one is rigged, the voting process is rigged, just don't ask me to present evidence in a court of law...

It can be difficult to get on the list of eligible voters; different places count different things as a proper ID. If you are poor or marginalized in other ways, getting a proper ID can be a challenge. The US has a long history of trying to prevent substantial populations from voting; it’s even designed into the Constitution.

Just this week, the Supreme Court ruled that votes in Pennsylvania that don’t have the date written on them (properly) but were mailed in don’t have to be counted. That has nothing to do with the intent of the voter, but political factions think it affects their chances one way or the other. In some states, you can’t give water to people while they wait in line to vote.

Being a country with compulsory voting helps, because the system has to make it possible for everyone without a valid exceptional circumstance to be able to vote (would be unfair to be fined for not voting if you were still waiting in line to vote when the polls closed), and also they can quite accurately predict the kind of numbers they're going to get at the polling places.