CBS News: Hey, Voting ID Is Pretty Darned Popular

Oh, I see, CBS News is trying to say that it’s not really that popular

In voting process, photo ID gets wide support, CBS News poll finds

Requiring photo ID to vote and proving citizenship to register both find wide and often bipartisan support.

But that doesn’t mean everyone sees problems with the current voting system.

It is often Republicans driving the percentages of those who think there is widespread fraud — and often think it’s specifically in cities and Democratic areas — but even then, it’s not an overwhelming majority of them.

Elsewhere, including among many Democrats, there’s concern that proof of citizenship requirements will prevent eligible citizens from voting.

And there’s still a local-first perspective on running elections: Most Americans would have their own states, rather than the federal government, have the final say in how elections are run.

See, it’s popular, but, not really popular popular. Except

If they’re getting 65% of Democrats to want ID to vote, well, obviously it’s mostly Republicans who want it.

The perceived implications of needing to prove citizenship are sharply partisan, though: Democrats are more inclined to say it’ll prevent US citizens from being able to vote, while more Republicans say that it will block non-citizens from doing so.

Yeah, Dems do not like requiring proof of citizenship, with 50% thinking it would block citizens from voting. I’d love to hear an explanation of that. Who do they think are citizens?

Mail voting — which, in many states, is a substantial or even entirely the way they vote — draws mixed views. Most Republicans feel it should only be available to those unable to physically vote.

Republicans also tend to feel mail balloting brings more fraud.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that mail in should only be used in certain situations, not widespread. Going to college in another state? Fine. Overseas? OK. Disabled? Sure (though, NC makes a lot of accommodations for people with disabilities to show up at the polling places). Yes, fraud, but, people should not be voting weeks, a month before the election. Lots of things can happen to change a vote. I do not like when early voting is more than a week out.

If that many people do not know the SAVE Act, that’s rather a big fail on the News Media. Also, there’s this wonderful thing called the Internet. People could take 10 minutes instead of cruising TikTok and doing stupid dance challenges, right?

There’s all sorts of questions trying to obfuscate 65/79/95 support for voter ID.