I see. That wasn’t exactly my intention, although I did think that to some extent. It’s obvious to me that access to ID can be manipulated to discriminate against some voters/citizens, but I underestimated the extent to which it can/does happen. I am probably biased also by how easy it is sometimes in other countries, and forgetting that a lot of this is state managed in the US.
In some other countries there are also laws making it illegal not to be registered to vote. The advantage of those laws is that the govt is somewhat obliged to go out of their way to make it accessible.
I had no idea. The concerns seem a lot more valid now.
It seems like (today with all the ICE stuff) there’s a good opportunity to help those citizens since there’s now a point of government contact and the current administration could point to procedures that solve the problem for US citizens. (But I haven’t heard about something like this)
The govt could also proactively advertise to those people and run special programs or whatever. (This might be expensive but it’s a problem that needs to be solved at some point)
My (implicit) point was that when parties complain about something, and are then in power but don’t solve it, then that’s an indication of dishonesty, incompetence, or that an issue isn’t really that bad. I can see how the US federal-state dynamic makes it much more complex though (which I didn’t really consider before).