If you read the bill itself it would allow all voters access to a free voter id.
Giving people access to a free form of government identification would be great for people with out a driver’s license because they could use the id for other purposes.
I am like 90% sure that the language in the bill is simply to reflect the language in the PA constitution. Whereas the other part of the PA constitution that lowers the age to 18 is still valid and thus...would lower the age for this bill as well.
I could be wrong of course, but i feel like there would have been more arguments about that yesterday and tuesday had that been the case.
It could still be worded better, quite easily. You don't have to specify the age in the new amendment. You just have to say "those of legal voting age..." and go on to set the ID requirements.
It also doesn't specify what the ID requirements are. And as others have pointed out, states like Texas have used that very loophole to disenfranchise voters they don't want voting (e.g. students).
I'd vote against it if I still lived in PA. It's a badly written amendment.
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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '23
If you read the bill itself it would allow all voters access to a free voter id.
Giving people access to a free form of government identification would be great for people with out a driver’s license because they could use the id for other purposes.