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Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 02:47:09 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:
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@patrascan @trouble @tlariv @lauren Voter ID is not as controversial as you think & most Americans support it.
👉🏾 Voter ID shouldn’t be this controversial https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-02-10/voter-id-controversial
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1. Two things have bothered me about Democratic opposition to voter ID. First is the claim that millions upon millions of Americans lack adequate ID. While it’s true that the SAVE Act’s provisions for providing proof of citizenship creates novel challenges — lots of people don’t have their birth certificates and many forms of ID don’t specify citizenship — Democrats were making this argument years before the citizenship issue ripened. (To be clear, evidence of noncitizens voting in significant numbers is scant to nonexistent.) Regardless, if the problem is that huge numbers of “marginalized” people don’t have sufficient ID to vote, that also means they don’t have good enough ID for all manner of things. Indeed, I can think of few things more likely to marginalize someone than not having ID. You can’t get a credit card, buy or rent a home, apply for welfare benefits, travel by plane or open a bank account without identification. That’s some serious marginalization.
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  Column: Voter ID shouldn't be this controversial
  
  from https://www.latimes.com/people/jonah-goldberg
  
  Last year, Pew found that 95% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats favored people providing government ID at the polls.

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