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Canada Goose sale This is a silly statement. Of course voter fraud occurs. The Democratic talking point is that it not a big enough problem to have any effect that warrants spending time or money on. That is probably true, beause large scale voter fraud would be extremely difficult and yield little benefit. Canada Goose sale

That doesn mean we shouldn plug holes in our election system, even if they are small ones. This idea that “anything the Republicans say is wrong, let ignore it” is cancerous to our modern day politics. Granted, a lot of what they say is completely wrong, but on issues like this, instead of punching back, why not just completely take the wind out of their sails and just say, “you right, let do voter ID, but as part of a comprehensive reform to all of our systems that rely on out of date identification requirements”?

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canada goose uk outlet It Canada Goose Parka doesn matter if voter fraud is actually a problem. What matters is the perception of a problem, specifically in reference to the integrity of our election systems. A prosperous, non Canada Goose online contentious democracy cannot function if people don have faith in the fundamental processes of democracy. canada goose uk outlet

Sure, “voter fraud” may just be a scare mongering strawman to scare Republicans, rationalize their earned defeats, and demonize Democrats, but for many Americans it is a tactic that has worked. As long as a significant portion of the American public have doubts about the validity of our elections, they will be nearly impossible to placate, to achieve compromise with, and to convince that America really is changing. A comprehensive Voter ID system, implemented via a versatile and multi purpose National ID, in such a way as to not intentionally nor unintentionally suppress minorities, would go a long way towards restoring trust in our Democracy and would only strengthen cheap Canada Goose the validity of our liberal wins.

canada goose store Voter ID is just one piece of the puzzle. My real goal is for a new National ID system which would be used for all the basic public, private, legal and governmental process that we now have to use several IDs for. Taxes? No more SSN. National ID. Employment? No more SSN. National ID. Banking? No more driver license or SSN or passport. National ID. Contracts? National ID. Voter registration and voting? National ID. canada goose store

No more “stolen SSNs” used for illegal workers, for identity theft, or for the alleged “dead people voting.” No more confusing mix of different States driver licences with different formats and appearances and security features, which you have to replace every time you move to a new state. No more need to find your long lost birth certificate or order a replacement copy. A secure, versatile, sensible modern solution to citizen identification Canada Goose sale to unify all public, private, legal, and governmental processes would do so much good to our society in so many ways beyond simply voting, and would also bring us into the modern world where pretty much every first world country on Earth, and even many third world countries, have already implemented far more intelligent and secure systems.

I also dislike the oft repeated argument that “voter fraud” is such a small problem that it is not worth fixing. We are a massive society with massive resources. It is possible to tackle multiple problems at the same time. To be clear, problems should be solved with resources proportional to the scale of the problem. As voter fraud is a very small problem, I don believe in a dedicated Voter ID solution. But, as a small part of an overall National ID system which would produce innumerable benefits to our society in terms of security and efficiency, the small marginal resource cost to strengthening our election process via a Voter ID system that implements the new National ID would, buy canada goose jacket cheap imo, be worth it. Especially canada goose store when you consider that the benefit of Voter ID is not just in the actual cases of Voter ID that it prevents, which would be very few, but more importantly in the strengthening of public trust and faith in our elections and therefore our democracy as a whole.

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