Today, New Hampshire Students Will Likely Pay The Price For The State’s New Voter ID Laws

[Gothmog]

I am curious to see if this voter id law affects turnout http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/09/3747158/new-hampshire-voter-id-2/

DURHAM, NH — Today, New Hampshire will require voters to bring a photo ID to the ballot box for the first time in its history. Those who don’t have an ID can ask the poll workers to vouch for them, but if they don’t personally know the voter, he or she will have to sign a “challenged voter” affidavit and allow poll workers to take a Polaroid picture of them.

Voting rights advocates say they’re worried this gives individual poll workers leeway to discriminate, and that it could cause delays and long lines at the polls if the half-million expected voters turn up at the polls. Others fear the new Polaroid photo provision will feel like a “mug shot.”

“I think it’s unnecessary and a form of voter intimidation, especially for people my age who aren’t totally sure of their voting rights,” Chelsea Krimme, a junior at the University of New Hampshire, told ThinkProgress. “They could get scared away from wanting to vote, both this year and in the future.”

This will be New Hampshire’s hundredth year of hosting the country’s first presidential primary, but it may be among the most complicated.

Krimme, an environmental sustainability major, has been tabling and phone-banking across campus to educate students about the voting process. She says she is concerned about the level of confusion she’s witnessed among her peers.

“A lot of students think they’re required to bring an ID when they’re not. They don’t know about being able to sign the affidavit,” she said. “And about half the out-of-state students I’ve talked to think they can’t vote in New Hampshire, when they can. It’s sad, because are so many important issues right now, from student debt to climate change, that students care about and they want to have a voice.”

The sole and only purpose of voter id laws is to keep groups like students from voting. College students tend to vote for Democratic candidates. I doubt that there has been a good job done in informing students as to how this law works

BTW, I posted this thread here because it is not clear to me that this law will favor Clinton or Sanders. I am against all voter id laws.

[KamaAina]

1. "and allow poll workers to take a Polaroid picture of them"?

Dudes. 1975 called. It wants its camera back.

And the law will favor Clinton big time. Bernie owns the campuses.

[Iliyah]

2. Yep, that was the reasoning, and its reported the lines are moving slower

than before. Not only college students but POC as well.

[Dawson Leery]

3. kick

[B2G]

4. Student ID cards are accepted

As are drivers licenses.

Hard to believe that students don't have at least one of the above.

[Gothmog]

5. In Texas, student ids are not acceptable

There are studies that show that the Texas voter id reduced turnout out by 5.9% to 12% in 2014 which gave the GOP the election. The sole purpose of these laws is to suppress turnout.

I did not post this in GD-Primaries because it was not clear to me that there was a clear advantage for either Clinton or Sanders. I will be curious to see if what effect this law has

[B2G]

6. They are in New Hampshire

They should be everywhere.

[Gothmog]

9. The Texas voter id law may be an issue for Sanders

The Texas GOP is good at suppressing the vote and students ids are not allowed. The Texas GOP wants to make it hard for Texas college students to vote.

[Iliyah]

7. In some states the address and name or either have to match perfectly.

The more difficult voting is, the better chances the GOP has of winning. That's another on -going fight we Dems have.

[ananda]

8. In Iowa's Reep primary, no Reep voter was asked for photo ID.

Nuff said.