Yes, it is. The fact is, there are millions of Americans who don’t have IDs. They’re basically all poor enough so airplane rides aren’t something they’d do anyway. If you look 60 or 70, it’s easy to find someplace that won’t card you for booze or cigs (and maybe you don’t drink or smoke, anyway). You don’t have a bank… Read more

This is a great way of thinking about it.
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Dems benefit, however, because easier access to voting means more legitimate voters get to vote. Republicans benefit because legitimate voters are deterred from voting. The two things are not morally equivalent.
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That’s impressive. Thanks for posting that!
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TheDoctor, there is no evidence that anything like you’re describing is going on in the US - and there’s strong evidence that there is not. Read this article, for example:
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My guess is that you’re from a much smaller country - one without fifty separate state governments, each of which has their own methods of recordkeeping. So let’s say you were born in a hospital in Alabama 60 years ago, but sometime in the 60 years since all the birth records were lost, or were never kept in the first… Read more

MLK was a prominent civil rights leader starting in 1955 (the Montgomery Bus boycott).
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There are, in fact, millions of people in our society who function without IDs. That you find this difficult to imagine is not relevant.

For those who have an ID, it’s not a huge and burdensome amount of security. For some - for instance, elderly people born in circumstances from which records have either been lost, or… Read more