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Can someone eli5 why it is controversial to require proof of citizenship to vote in the USA?
We already do, this isn't about proof of citizenship it's about removing certain types of voters from the pool. In the USA it is extremely rare that any voter fraud happens (we are talking like 30-40 cases over a billion votes cast) this kind of law is basically a vote tax, you wanna vote? This is a pay to vote plan, you wanna vote pay 60 bucks to get your passport, pay another 50 for your real ID. Not everyone has that money to spend so they can't vote
Not to mention... It takes extra time to check that info when you vote. Even if it takes just an extra 10 seconds to confirm an ID number. Out in rural (red) areas, it may only add a few minutes to the queue time to vote, but for urban (blue) areas, some voting stations see 40000+ people, adding literally hundreds of hours (distributed across a few lines) to the time it takes to vote. Factor in that voting is officially 1 day, and not a federal holiday. Who can afford to wait in line a few extra hours to vote in those areas? Who can take the whole day off instead of just their lunch, in order to vote? Who is going to have stability in their housing in order to keep the necessary documents safe and readily available?
It's all a plan to target the poor and working class in cities, suppress their votes, and erode the foundation of democracy, that everyone get 1 equal vote.