Voter Id Laws Pros And Cons

In recent years there has been a debate about voter id laws. This debate has both a good and a bad side. On the one hand, it could help to prevent voter fraud and keep people to the one person one vote rule and the other hand it could prevent many who do not have and identification card from voting at all. These laws would be a good thing because they could prevent people from voting more than once it could also raise the level of trust citizen having in the voting system. According to Representative Dan Flynn, ““Everybody gets to vote once, and you can’t be dead to vote.” His interest in voter ID requirements for Texas stem in part from a sense that citizens lack confidence in the election system, and voter ID legislation is one way to raise that confidence”(2017). If we had to prove who we were when voting the entire process would feel more secure, thus improving the confidence of voters making them want to vote more.

On the other side, this law could be a form of discrimination against the elderly and minorities. Some of these people are not able to get any form of identification because they cannot take off work or because they do not have a way to get to the places to get identification.
While social media can be a great way to spread information to many people at once, it is also known for providing inaccurate information. “Support for photo ID may fall if the public is perpetually fed partial data or inaccurate information. For example, a recent survey by the University of Delaware demonstrated that support for photo ID laws dropped by 12 percent when the survey question stated that requiring the presentation of a photo ID may ‘prevent people who are eligible to vote from voting”(Nielsen 2017). While it feels that voter ID laws are a good idea, I feel that the government needs to provide those who need identification with either a means to get identification or send out cards made expressly for this