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Civil rights group marks MLK Day with call for 'Trump card' national ID
A prominent civil rights group is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day by pressing President Trump to honor his promise to create a national photo ID card for citizens.
Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of the iconic civil rights leader and a co-chairmen of the Drum Major Institute, met with Trump two years ago on MLK Day. During that meeting, the then president-elect endorsed the idea of a national photo ID. This year, the group is calling on Trump to follow through.
William Wachtel, co-founder of the Drum Major Institute, said the group sees the issue as critical to ensuring King's work to remove barriers to voting.
[...] The idea has invited controversy in the past, in particular over privacy concerns. In 2013, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a measure, the Protect Our Privacy Act, attached to a Senate immigration bill. The Paul amendment sought to prevent the creation of a national ID card, citing worries that it would make it easier for the government to track people. Wachtel sought to ease concerns about such an ID, saying it would not be mandatory and would only be an option for those who sought it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @04:47PM (2 children)
I genuinely believe there should never be a requirement which ends up costing a voter one cent to be able to vote. (Gas prices and bus fares are not requirements, especially with easy early balloting).
I believe that there should not be a literacy requirement to vote, and requiring forms to be filled out challenges that.
I genuinely believe that the way I currently vote, required signature compared to my signature on my voter registration card, is sufficient to identify that I am who I am. I believe that myself, and any other voter, can be found and verified.
I believe that electoral fraud in any significant numbers has not been proven sufficiently and that this is therefore a solution in search of a problem, and that the reason that the solution is proposed is consonant with an explanation of racism.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 22 2019, @09:56PM
There isn't a literacy requirement. Poll workers will assist you if you can't read.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 22 2019, @09:57PM
Bleh, premature Submit.
Electoral fraud will never be proven sufficiently as long as any sort of means of checking for it is rabidly opposed by the left.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.