Had to show photo ID to vote today, for the first time in my life. Lame.
@johns And led to this incredible debian-devel thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg01393.html
@mjg59 yep, amazing, hard to argue with: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg01452.html
@issackelly @mjg59 @johns wowza. I thought it was bad just in the early pseudo-histrionics about the KSP, and then we get into the vote-by-mail-or-not discussion, complete with some rather unfortunate sexism. and I'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg…
@mjg59 @johns "perpetrator's" blog entry, for the record: https://web.archive.org/web/20060822045204/http://blog.madduck.net/geek/2006.05.24-tr-id-at-keysigning
@johns decades ago I, a completely amateur forger modified my old student id and opened a bank account in a false name. (For good obvs, though in practice I never needed to use it.)
No problem.
@johns If the purpose was anything other than voter suppression, the ability for poll workers to accurately check IDs would matter. The rule is only an extra barrier to prevent poor people from voting which statistically helps Republican candidates
Also this reminds me of people checking photo ID when signing GPG keys. If you have no training/practice in identifying an official ID (as I'm 99% sure most of the volunteers at the polls do not either), the requirement is not worth much, which means all of the cons of the requirement easily outweigh the supposed benefits.