Friends, our democracy is in danger.

Here's why the Senate needs to pass S.1:
Republicans have already introduced 250 bills to restrict voting and suppress voting all over the country. Republicans are working at federal and state levels to encourage voter suppression of anyone who might vote against them:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/15/politics/stacey-abrams-voting-rights-republicans-donald-trump/index.html

But remember, we made it through four years of the worst it could possibly be. We got through it and we are stronger, more united, and better organized as a result.

We will fight whatever they throw at us. Let's take five minutes to use our voices on this issue. Remember, they and your vote are your superpowers.

Call your two Senators. 202-224-3121 or https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm to contact them by local office numbers or email. Or use https://resist.bot/ to iMessage or text them. And help spread the word to others.

#ForThePeople #CallToAction #PassS1 #MondayMotivation
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@TonyStark I don't understand how we can have a functioning democracy when we don't force voter ID. Mail in ballots violate one-man one-vote. Reducing the minimum standard to vote harms democracy and dilutes the vote. I understand Jim Crow era rules were bad, but now we're going to extremes in the wrong direction; one that is equally disenfranchising.

We are the laughing stock of Europe. "Wait, you don't need ID in America to vote?!" Fuck S1 and Fuck HR1.

@djsumdog
Only send them to registered voters. It's that easy. Many states have been doing mail-in voting for years. Signatures on file for signature matching. It's been working in the US for a long time.
@TonyStark

@artilectzed @djsumdog @TonyStark it works well, better than any other system. Less fraud then fake licenses.

The only people pushing voter ID are Republicans who don't want minorities voting.

@PixxburghGirl @artilectzed @TonyStark Straw man argument. I'm literally a minority, an independent and I want voter ID. It's $30 in most states to get a non drivers license ID. Most people have actual drivers licenses. Most poor people in the US have licenses.

It's people on the left that want to keep lowering and lowering the standard and there's no good reason for it. IF you can't cough up $30 and spare a day to get an ID card, why should you vote? You shouldn't even legally be allowed to buy a beer.

We're not in Jim Crow ear where people are asking for reading/writing tests. We're asking for a minimum standard of ensuring one-man-one-vote. We're trying to NOT go back to vote-early-vote-often.

@djsumdog @PixxburghGirl @TonyStark @artilectzed State ID in Illinois is $20. I believe it can be waived in some cases.

ID is needed for so many aspects of daily life that I just cannot fathom any real arguments against it to vote. I find it very hard to imagine somebody who somehow glides through the other 600-1200 days of their life without needing ID for fuck-all, but of all the activities they now abstain from, voting wasn't one of them.

My only concern is "oh, there's an accent on this copy of your name but not on your ID pls go away" and similar bureaucratic fuckery being used to disenfranchise arbitrary people. That's really it.

@r000t

It's also more complicated than that.  Some states purposely limit the types of ID they accept, based on what demographic or party affiliation is most likely to have them.  For example, accepting a hunting license, driver's license or passport, but not a student ID or government employee ID will change who's eligible.

Second, some states have demanded that the ID name exactly match the registration, down to punctuatuon. For example, if you registered as John Patrick O'Malley, Jr. decades ago, but your driver's license says John P. OMalley Jr, you can be turned away. 

It's particularly difficult for women whose surnames often vary over their lifetime, including different versions for professional and personal use.   It's also harder for people who don't drive -- the poor, the disabled, and the very elderly.  

Finally, for certain populations, $60 is out. $20 is out. They still have a right to vote.
@djsumdog @PixxburghGirl @artilectzed

@TonyStark @djsumdog @PixxburghGirl @artilectzed

I just find it very interesting that *this* is the hill to die on. Anybody must be able to claim they are anybody else, present no proof, and be able to cast that person's ballot, period, end of story. Just seems off...

And again, I get it, the DMV sucks. But you're honestly trying to tell me that there's an enormous block of people who don't do *anything* in their lives that they have a legal and/or constitutional right to do, but that requires identification? You're trying to sell me on the idea that there's large groups of people just exist idly, maintain a pulse, and emerge only to vote? Horseshit.

Should forms of acceptable ID be reigned in? Yes, of course. Nobody's saying otherwise.

Should minor discrepancies on paperwork be used as excuses to turn people away? No, of course not. Nobody's saying otherwise.

Zero fraud is impossible. Nobody's expecting zero fraud. But at the same time, the terms "due diligence" and "duty of care" come to mind. The local gas station can be fined or shut down and the owners brought up on criminal charges if they sell cigarettes or alcohol to a 70 year old man who forgot his ID, but that's too much to ask for to vote?

I'm a victim of identity theft. With data available on Google, it is trivial to register to vote in my name. All of my utilities and service providers (are supposed to) demand ID out of anybody saying they're me. Why can't I expect my local pollworker to do the same?

@TonyStark @djsumdog @PixxburghGirl @artilectzed
Let's focus on the people successfully disenfranchising millions by ensuring there's one drop-box per county

Let's focus on the people successfully disenfranchising millions by cutting the weekend and evening hours of polling places.

Let's focus on the people successfully disenfranchsing millions by having fun with the purge function on the voter rolls.

Let's focus on electronic voting and the absolute godawful nightmare that is.

Let's focus on any of the other things that matter way fucking more, and that don't ask us to suspend common sense.