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Should a photo ID be required to vote?

In 2002 the federal government passed the Help America Vote Act. The law required first-time voters in Federal Elections to present a form of identification to the appropriate State or local election official before or on election day if they registered by mail. Forms of acceptable identification include a current and valid photo identification, a copy of a current utility bill, bank statements, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter. Voters who submitted any of these forms of identification during registration are exempt, as…  

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Response rates from 73.8k Congressional District 5 voters.

80%
Yes
20%
No
76%
Yes
12%
No
4%
Yes, this will prevent voter fraud
4%
No, and automatically register every citizen to vote when they turn 18
0%
Yes, but guarantee every 18 year old receives one at no cost
2%
No, this will disadvantage those who do not have the resources to obtain one
2%
No, and there is little evidence that voter fraud even exists

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 @8NDHZFH from Nebraska  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes but guarantee that everyone can get one once they turn 18

 @5BD4K5Qfrom Maine  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but make having an ID free for every citizen

 @9SYN6CF from Arkansas  answered…4mos4MO

Yes, but guarantee every 18 year old receives one at no cost and is automatically registered to vote

 @9G9C49K from North Carolina  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but the government should provide one to all citizens free of charge and register citizens automatically on their 18th birthday

 @8MQHB9C from Iowa  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes because somebody could easily steal someones ID.

 @8HFKMFY from Utah  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but guarantee everyone gets ID and register citizens when they turn 18, otherwise no.

 @98WXD35 from Texas  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, and voters should be required to pass a basic test demonstrating their understanding of politics in order to vote

 @59VC7RDfrom Florida  answered…4yrs4Y

No. The only voter fraud that has been proved is perpetrated by political parties, not voters.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2mos2MO

Trump Will Concede If Election "Fair"

Donald Trump has said he will concede defeat in the 2024 election if he loses a "fair" race.Speaking while casting his vote in Palm Beach, Florida, the former president was asked by a reporter how he would respond to concerns that he might not concede if he loses the election to Kamala Harris."I think they're crazy," Trump said. "If I lose an election, if it's a fair election, I'd be the first one to acknowledge it. So far, I think it's been fair."Following his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, Trump continually made false claim of voter fraud and frequently said that the election was rigged. Trump refused to acknowledge Biden fairly won that election, and his supporters later stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as a part of an alleged attempt to stop the certification of the results.Speaking further at the Palm Beach polling station on Tuesday, Trump dismissed suggestions that he needs to tell his supporters not to be violent if he loses the election."I don't have to tell them that. There'll be no violence, of course there'll be no violence, my supporters are not violent people," Trump said.He said that he thinks that the vote counting process is "too complicated.""If we had a piece of paper watermarked—you know that paper is more sophisticated now than computers—it's watermarked paper. It's unbelievable what happens with it, there nothing you can do to cheat."We spend hundreds of millions and billions of dollars on these campaigns. You could do it for 8 percent of the cost and have accuracy, and we wouldn't have to be worried about when Pennsylvania is going to announce," Trump added. "It's really a shame."Trump added he feels "very confident" about his chances in this election, saying that he came into Election Day "with a very big lead."

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2wks2W

Pete Hegseth Slams Gay Troops Policy

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a “Marxist” agenda to prioritize social justice over combat readiness.In his 2024 book “The War on Warriors” and in subsequent media promotions this year, Hegseth described both the original “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy and its repeal in 2011 as a “gateway” and a “camouflage” for broader cultural changes that he claims have undermined military cohesion and effectiveness.In a 2015 appearance on Fox News, Hegseth also argued these policies like repealing DADT “erode standards” in favor of political goals like social engineering.DADT was implemented under President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and allowed gay people and lesbians to serve in the military — provided they did not disclose their sexuality. Military officials were also barred from asking military members their sexual orientation. If a troop’s orientation came to light, it could lead to their discharge.The policy was repealed during the Obama administration, allowing openly gay service members.Hegseth writes in his book that he was initially ambivalent to the change but came to regret his passive stance, describing the repeal as a “breach in the wire” that opened the door for broader cultural and ideological changes in the military.On Thursday, Hegseth appeared to walk back his earlier remarks about DADT, telling CNN, “Oppose the repeal? No, I don’t,” and calling this report on his previous comments “more false reporting.”

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…1mo1MO

Vetting Fiasco: Trump's Defense Pick Caught in Sexual Assault Allegation Storm

CNN commentator and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said President-elect Donald Trump’s team missed Pete Hegseth’s payoff to a sexual assault accuser when they vetted him to be secretary of defense.Hegseth is among a raft of cabinet picks facing tough confirmations, and who aren’t being subjected to the customary FBI checks, instead being vetted by private firms. Over the weekend, Hegseth’s attorney dropped the bomb that there was a confidential settlement with a woman who accused the former Fox News host of sexual assault. On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Haberman revealed that her sources in Trump world did not know about the payoff, which was missed in the vetting “because it was a private settlement”HABERMAN: There’s more concern from some people around Trump than there is from Trump himself, about this whole issue. Trump has really dug in, and has told advisers that he is going to stick with Hegseth. Now, we’ll see if anything else emerges.They did do a vet, we are told. This did not show up, this issue, because it was a private settlement, according to the people, who were briefed on what took place. Trump really likes Pete Hegseth. But this did introduce the thing Trump doesn’t like, which is an element of surprise and a negative headline. And so, we will see where this goes.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2mos2MO

Inside the Podcast Revolution: Trump’s Unfiltered Strategy and Harris’s ‘Meltdown’ Risk

Tech billionaire Elon Musk attributed President-elect Trump’s election victory, at least in part, to the lengthy podcast interviews he did during the campaign.In an interview late Tuesday with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk said Trump’s podcast appearances showed the American public that he was a normal person.“I think it made a big difference that President Trump and soon-to-be Vice President Vance went on lengthy podcasts,” Musk said in the interview.“I think this really makes a difference because people look at, like, Joe Rogan’s podcast, which is great, and Lex Fridman’s and the All-In podcast, and, you know, to a reasonable-minded, smart person — who’s not, like, hardcore one way or the other — they just listen to someone talk for a few hours and that’s how they decide whether, you know, you’re a good person, whether they like you,” he added, according to a clip highlighted by Mediaite.Trump conducted many interviews with new media during his campaign, as well as with legacy news organizations such as Fox News.Last month, he joined Joe Rogan’s podcast for a 3-hour long interview. The celebrity host later endorsed his candidacy.His opponent, Vice President Harris, did not appear on Rogan’s podcast because, according to “The Joe Rogan Experience” host, the Harris campaign only had an hour and required him to travel to her. Rogan said he felt “strongly” that the “best way to do” an interview with the vice president would have been in his studio in Austin, Texas.Musk recalled posting on his social platform X account that “nothing would do more damage” to Harris’s campaign than going on Rogan’s podcast, “because she would run out of non-sequiturs after about 45 minutes.”“You can’t hide for three hours,” Carlson replied.Musk added, “Yeah, like, hour two and three would be a complete melted puddle of nonsense. So it would just be absolute game over. That’s why she didn’t go on.”“But on the other hand, Trump, he’s there, and there’s no, there’s no talking points,” the Tesla CEO continued. “He’s just being a normal person who’s having a conversation, and doing three hours of Rogan, no problem.”

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…1wk1W

Defense Bill Blocks Transgender Care To Minors

The Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a defense policy bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military activities, moving over the objections of some Democrats who opposed a provision added late in the negotiations that would deny coverage for transgender health procedures for minors.The 85-to-14 vote, coming a week after a divided House passed the same measure, cleared the bill for President Biden’s signature.Most Republicans and many Democrats supported the measure, which provides a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted service members and a 4.5 percent pay raise for all other service members. It also expands access to meal assistance, housing and child care programs that benefit those in uniform.But several Democrats withheld their backing in protest of a provision preventing TRICARE, the military’s health care plan for service members, from covering “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under 18.The language, which would affect the gender-transitioning children of service members, was recently added to the measure at the insistence of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who refused to bring a defense bill to the House floor without it, according to aides familiar with the negotiations.Twenty-one Democrats, led by Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, proposed an amendment to strip the provision from the bill, but the matter was never brought to a vote. Several of them took to the floor on Tuesday to lodge their objections.“It’s flat-out wrong to put this provision in this bill and take away a service member’s freedom to make that decision for their families,” Ms. Baldwin said, estimating that the provision could negatively affect as many as 6,000 to 7,000 military families.

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