One must present a driver license to authorities upon demand,
Even when one is not driving a vehicle? Even without cause?
And let's not ask whether people really think that Mexico is the model to emulate. "Papers please" is what was always derided in the authoritarian societies that America used to make fun of. Now it's what Americans want?
Not to mention that a driver's license is something that one acquires at their discretion in order to demonstrate that they have received proper training to drive. Is choosing to learn to drive equivalent to the democratic right to vote? There is no right to drive - is there a right to vote or not?
So how exactly is requiring ID to vote any different?
What if the state denies you the ID? What if the state chooses to make the ID process onerous or expensive? Then you no longer even have the option of voting for people who would restore your right to vote.
I'm sure that you would have no problem getting your free ID but I could see legitimate voters having issues bootstrapping that from nothing, and I can imagine why the elites don't want those kind of people voting.
But then you get closer to the crux because elections aren't swung by onesies and twosies of lone wolf voters voting two or three times. Votes are stolen by big coordinated attacks like stripping people erroneously of the right to vote as in the "felon" scrubs of the Florida voter rolls or the dirty campaigns to robo-call voters and send them to the wrong polling stations, or wholesale dumping of ballots, forging of ballots, mishandling mail-ins etc. or, thanks to the miracle of modern technology - voting machines-
Oh - so close - but missed the mark. Stories like this one have been popular since touch voting machines have been used (and have shown votes switching both ways) and it's certainly an easy hack to misalign the screen and may result in a small percentage of misregistered votes but would only work for "honest" vote machines and we have no evidence that such a thing exists. There is no law of nature that forces the numbers that come out of the voting machine to be anything like the numbers that went in and since exit polling has been abandoned due to it suddenly not having any predictive power of outcomes since voting machines were introduced there is no sanity check on results at all.
Elections aren’t stolen by voters, elections are stolen FROM voters. The voting ID does not address any of this. It seems more like a way to force ID on people who don't yet have it - with the happy side effect that those people who can't get it or refuse to get it will have no say in future elections about how to oppress them. Ultimately we will drop the pretence and move to getting our cattle tags at birth where we are most able to determine pedigree.
