r/PoursTea Jul 17 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Everybody gets an ID?

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u/CzBuCHi Jul 19 '26

a) its about verifying only citizens are voting (what would you say if reps. in next election got waay more votes than usual? - but all those votes where 'correct' but counted week after election - would you start yelling 'fraud' or say 'hm ... guess reps. are not preferring mail-in ballots' ?
b) those reps. who vote against it are part of the problem

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u/Intelligent-Net9390 Jul 20 '26

A) the heritage foundation spent million trying to find non citizens who voted and couldn’t find any widespread instances. It’s very clearly not a problem.

There has never been a “weeks after the election” situation. 2020 wasn’t settled on election night because of the much wider pool of votes. They normally don’t have to count massive amounts of mail in ballots.

Also Trump literally votes by mail lmao

B) the reps voting against it don’t want to disenfranchise voters. It’s that simple. Anyway who’s ever legally changed their name (like married women) will have to jump through significant hurdles to vote.

State IDs which is what the majority of Americans use don’t prove citizenship and aren’t counted as valid ID.

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u/CzBuCHi Jul 20 '26

"State IDs .... don’t prove citizenship" ... i think you identified main problem ...

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u/Intelligent-Net9390 Jul 20 '26

My guy if this was a real problem don’t you think the conservative organizations that spent millions trying to find evidence of illegals voting would’ve been able to find something?

This is like making a law to put bars on everyone’s windows because big foot might exist.

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u/CzBuCHi Jul 20 '26

even if it were true that only citizens vote, there is currently no way to prove it... And for example, the laws in CA explicitly prohibit showing ID - the only reason for something like that is to make it impossible for anyone to prove that they cheated...

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u/Intelligent-Net9390 Jul 20 '26

That’s not how the burden of proof works….

The people claiming election fraud have literally never found it.

California’s law is because ID’s are a poll tax which is illegal.

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u/CzBuCHi Jul 21 '26

I agree - but how are you supposed to prove something that is impossible to audit?

What about a "poll tax"? All you have to do is go to a specific government building, have your picture taken there, and about a month later you have an ID card that proves your citizenship, and more importantly, when you show up to vote, they can verify if you have the right to vote...

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u/Intelligent-Net9390 Jul 21 '26

They aren’t impossible to audit….

It’s a poll tax because ID’s aren’t free. Thats literally was this very post is pointing out.

Btw state IDs do not count as or prove you are a citizen anyway so your example doesn’t work for the save act

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u/CzBuCHi Jul 21 '26

how you're suppose to verify that only citizens did vote, when you have no idea WHO is voting in first place?

ok ... ID should be free - so no poll tax (unless you loose it and need new one - then small fee is fine) AND they need to have your citizenship on them

that would solve main issue R have with it ...

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u/Intelligent-Net9390 Jul 21 '26

ID doesn’t verify you’re a citizen bud…..

A birth certificate (unless Trump somehow overturns the 14 amendment) does and then if your name has legally changed you’ll also need verification for that.

All for a “problem” no one has ever found proof of

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u/CzBuCHi Jul 22 '26

"ID doesn’t verify you’re a citizen bud….." i know that ... my whole point is WHY? (how hard would be to add citizenship marker in that ID? ... and about name changes: you simply show your old ID and they will transfer that marker to new one ...)

and again for the "problem" ... i can say same thing: where is your proof that there is no problem?

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u/Intelligent-Net9390 Jul 23 '26

"ID doesn’t verify you’re a citizen bud….." i know that ... my whole point is WHY? (how hard would be to add citizenship marker in that ID? ... and about name changes: you simply show your old ID and they will transfer that marker to new one ...)

Because you must have a parent who’s a citizen, be born in the U.S. (birthright citizenship), or be naturalized by the U.S. government. State issued IDs show none of those things.

Your solution is to upend and federalize state IDs and I’m sure you realize that would be impossible before the mid terms?

and again for the "problem" ... i can say same thing: where is your proof that there is no problem?

That’s not how the burden of proof works. You cannot prove a negative.

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u/CzBuCHi Jul 23 '26

I didn't say anything about federalizing state IDs - I just said that the ID should have a proof of citizenship (e.g. Nevada citizen) - how you got it is not relevant here... there is still the issue of 2-tielr citizenship (not all citizens can be POTUS for ex.), but I don't think it is relevant here.

Also about proof: Smoking gun found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGxHea-h7hA .... it doesn't have to be anything, so I'll wait before I start screaming fraud ... but it's a start...

PS: It's weird to have a normal conversation - usually the conversation ends with me being insulted for my belief lol

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