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====Identification is necessary for X, and therefore it should be required to vote====

====Identification is necessary for X, and therefore it should be required to vote====

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Proponents suggest that few people lack valid ID because it is necessary to perform everyday activities, as well as that because some activities (such as financial transactions) require ID, voting, which is more important, should likewise require ID.

 

However, voting is different from these sorts of activities in that the integrity of the voting system also depends on who ''does not'' get to cast a ballot (the extreme example being a dictatorship's sham elections that show a dictator being "re-elected" with "100%" support).  Thus, increasing requirements for voting is really a trade-off between preventing fraud on one end and preventing disenfranchisement on the other end.  In contrast, the fact that my neighbor cannot cash a check because she has no acceptable ID does not jeopardize the integrity of the financial system.

 

Further, voting is a right of citizens, protected under the US Constitution (Amend. XV, Amend. XIX, Amend. XXIV, Amend. XXVI) and Supreme Court decisions (''Baker v. Carr'' [1962], ''Harman v. Forssenius'' [1965], ''Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections'' [1966], ''Dunn v. Blumstein'' [1972], ''Bush v. Gore'' [2000]).  Ordinary activities, even ones that are indisputably common activities, are not constitutionally protected like voting.

=====Doing X with private company Y=====

=====Doing X with private company Y=====