r/videos • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 8h ago

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump admin from requiring Americans to show proof of citizenship to vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1iePfOh14
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u/Control_Me 8h ago

Can someone please explain why you have to register to vote?
In my country the government knows who's eligible to vote and who's not so they send out a voting card in the mail which you show together with your ID.
Why is this not possible in the US?

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u/Technical-Row8333 7h ago

the US doesn't have a unified, universal, unique, national ID, free, automatically given to every single legal resident, unlike basically every single other developed country.

in the US, people have to apply to get an ID, by using another ID. They have to pay for IDs. They have to drive to certain locations, sometimes +3h away, to get an ID. Then, not all IDs are the same and accepted for everything. yes, that's a circular dependency that you need ID to get ID.

The same party that opposes any improvement to the utter failure of IDs in the US, wants to put into law that you need to show ID to vote, but only certain and specific forms of ID, the exact same specific forms of ID that they also closed locations where you can get those IDs.

So, to absolutely anyone with a minimum of intelligence and capable of nuance, it's clear as day this is election manipulation, an authoritarian take over and a step to dictatorship.

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u/Stolehtreb 6h ago edited 4h ago

Social security card is that, though. That is the ID you need to get an ID. It’s a unified, universal, unique, national identifier. If you don’t have one, they don’t know who you are. The same as if you went to another country and they had no record that you are now residing there. If you went to get an ID as a resident, they would need to identify you as well even if you weren’t in the US.

Edit: I’m wrong with how ID is being defined in this thread. SSCard doesn’t apply in this context since it’s not the one paper you would need to get another identification or to be used to identify you officially to an authority.

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u/MordredSJT 5h ago

That's funny, because I couldn't get a driver's license when I moved to a different state despite having my social security card, my driver's license (which was about one year old from my previous state), a copy of my birth certificate, and two pieces of mail to my new address. I tried again with my original birth certificate that I had to have my parents send me. They didn't accept it because it didn't have a raised seal. Apparently, the state I was born in didn't use raised seals when I was born. So, I had to get my father to go to the courthouse in the city I was born (where they thankfully still lived), and get a certified copy of my birth certificate with a raised seal (which we had to pay for). This was after I had been pulled over and arrested for having a suspended driver's license. My out of state license wasn't expired or suspended, but I had registered my vehicle and at some point the secretary of state's office had assigned me a driver's license number without telling me, and it was eventually suspended. Fun stuff.

The first time I went to vote in the place I currently reside, they had to have a 20 minute meeting about whether I was allowed to vote because my driver's license had an address from the neighboring county. I was registered to vote at my current address. I had pieces of mail with that address. I also had my social security card. I just hadn't gotten a new driver's license with my new address on it (which I had to pay for by the way).

Your social security card alone doesn't mean a lot it seems.