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[-] assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works 69 points 2 months ago

You need to do it because it's an unnecessary blocker. That's the point. Poor people disproportionately struggle to jump through the hurdles in place for voting, and Poor people disproportionately vote D. R loves to make voting harder under the auspices of "fraud prevention".

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

Also a lot of federal centralization didnt happen until the great depression, we are a federation of states meaning that historically it most shit was handled by the states and not in a states rights way but a who runs the local library sort of way. It was easier bureaucracatically as well allowing the feds to focus on other things.

This is also why random bits of bureaucracy is not standardized across all states, like the DMV sure most states got the memo but then you have whatever the fuck Washington is doing.

[-] RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It really is also a states rights thing. The federal government, by design, has no say in how elections or driver's licenses work.

That they have stepped in to the driver's license space is an overstep of their authority, honestly.

The federal government is not the sovereign entity, the many states are.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

That's no longer true, the 14th amendment effectively made the constitution sovereign over all the states, period. That's how incorporation works, otherwise states could have handgun bans again like in the 19th century.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I meant in the southern way, not in the wesetern states let us do our own thing sort of way.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The feds have nothing to do with driver's licenses. States have agreements to honor each other's licenses.

[-] RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

No longer true with real ID.

[-] MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 months ago

R loves to make voting harder under the auspices of “fraud prevention”.

They say, while their supporters are the ones committing all of the fraud.

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