J-Rod10 said:
I had no issue getting a P.O. Box in Starkville, MS when I was in college with an Arkansas ID.
There's no requirement for using an in-state ID, but there is a requirement to be present in person as well as to have a local physical address. So yeah, you can get a PO Box in MS with an AR ID. And as IM points out, you can't register to vote without a local physical address.
So do you seriously think there is a problem with rural Native Americans getting mail at a PO Box and using that as the address on their ID, and somehow -- what? -- committing voter fraud? Or do you think that people from Montana are somehow getting PO Boxes in North Dakota and then, somehow, getting registered to vote in that state? And that this law is somehow preventing that? That's not happening.
What is happening, as I pointed out, is the disenfranchisement of 70,000 Native Americans and more of other groups.
Does the disenfranchisement of huge parts of the population "make sense" to you?
How do you feel about Jack Kemp disenfranchising tens of thousands of African Americans in Georgia? Especially when it looks like he might lose by a close margin of African American voters? That's good practice for American democracy?
And all this time I thought that the Republicans were supposed to be the party of fewer regulations, keeping the "nanny state" out of people's business. So they invent a "threat" out of thin air, one that is proven not to be happening on any kind of large scale or that affects elections --voter fraud -- and create legislation that will have instead the effect of bolstering their position by disenfranchising minorities. Does that "make sense" to you as well?