We're only months from a major election, so of course the usual suspect in the right-wing

media are once again talking about voter ID, how voter

ID should be universally required and listen you need an ID to buy bread as

Donald Trump has said which of course you don't and Sean Hannity the Fox News

propaganda this latest wrinkle on this one is you need an ID to buy beer so

why wouldn't you need an ID to buy bread after I'm sorry you need an ID to buy bread after I'm sorry you need an I need to buy beer why

wouldn't you need an ID to vote of course ignoring a lot of realities

about voting versus buying alcohol. Let's listen to what

Hannity had to say and then I want to dive into this a little bit.

Why would anybody be against simple measures like this when you need an idea to buy let's see a six pack of beer a jewel

pod a pack of cigarettes give me a break you got to be kidding me okay so a couple different things and I do think

it's important for the left to understand the talking points here and for us to really

know why this makes very little sense first of all the IDs that they say are free and easy to get often aren't free nor easy to get.

And even if the ID itself may be free, you often need subsequent documents or we would call them sort of like

precursor documents which themselves are not free to obtain or to get copies of and or which may require

traveling to a state capital or far from where you live only during work hours in

order to obtain it and deal with bureaucracy etc so as I've said before

I don't have a problem in principle with requiring ID to vote the reality is that it is a proxy for making it more difficult for those who

Less easily are able to take a day off from work or to obtain transportation or have or pay for those precursor documents.

But let's go further than that.

Let's put aside for a second that their talk about the IDs being free and easy to get is an

exaggeration to put it charitably.

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