It shall be illegal, punishable by loss of citizenship and banishment from the territory of the United States and it possessions, to require identification documents of any sort, for any purpose, more detailed or more numerous than are required for the purpose of voting.
For the record, universal suffrage is neither requisite to the function of the Republic nor the original intent of the founders.
The founders intended that RESPONSIBLE citizens should vote, and QUALIFIED voters to assure that they could be trusted to exercise this privilege of leadership.
The reason that we have irresponsible and corrupt elected officials is that we have an irresponsible and corrupt electorate.
If the bipartisan political/regulator class had its way, we’d all be disarmed, microchipped and corraled into slavery in their bedrooms and barns.
voter ID is to protect the other person’s right to vote. Just like the first amendment protects unpopular speech.
the second amendment is to protect POPULAR speech.
“In consequence, laws that make presentation of ID the price of exercising a fundamental right are unacceptable...”
USC Article. XV.Section. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote” is not unconstrained.
Obviously, it’s limited to citizens of the United States, so there should be no problem with requiring identification proving citizenship.
It’s also limited by age, so there should be no problem with requiring identification proving proper age.
It’s limited by State citizenship/residency, so there should be no problem with requiring identification proving State citizenship/residency.
It may be limited by local residency, so there should be no problem with requiring identification proving local residency.
And it’s limited to one vote per person on anything upon which a vote is held, so there should be no problem with tracking identification to ensure “one vote” is not exceeded.
I’ll take the deal, but if I have to show an ID to buy a gun (and to vote) there should be no record kept of what model or serial number I bought, nor who I voted for (even though that would be useful to rectify voter fraud, and to study which party benefits from it).
Absentee ballots and voting in person with no ID should both require fingerprints that are scanned into a database to check for multiple ballots. Or would that disenfranchise poor and minority voters who can’t afford fingerprints?