“You must be a legal resident of Iowa and the precinct you live in and bring a photo ID with you to participate,” the state Republican party said on Friday in a post on the social media platform X.
The party is scheduled to hold local gatherings, known as the Iowa Caucus, on Jan. 15 in which participants will vote for their choice for the Republican candidate to run in November’s presidential election. U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to be the Democratic Party’s nominee.
The state Republican Party posted its reminder after Casey DeSantis, appearing on Fox News with her husband, the governor of Florida, called on women from across the country to join the gatherings, saying, “You do not have to be a resident of Iowa to participate."
Behind every dumb cardboard cutout of an alt right candidate is a suffering wife who has no idea what’s going on and just wants to order Thigh food.
I wanna go to Thighland
To get the thigh massage
And has realized that she left nothing behind… Other than compliance to Her Man…
Some like it like that, eh?
Republicans: “We’re attacked with illegal votes!”
De Santis wife: “Non-residents, vote for us.”
Took me, a non-US citizen, a while to get the joke.
Sort of, poster left out the key quote that triggered the post from the Republican party:
“We are asking all of these moms and grandmoms to come from wherever it might be, North Carolina, South Carolina, and to descend upon the state of Iowa,” said Casey DeSantis, who has been promoting a “Mamas for DeSantis” coalition as she campaigns for her husband.
So non-resident in this context would be out of state.
Shitty that they have to bring photo ID, which poorer people disproportionately do not have.
As a non-us Citizen: why? Do you have to pay to get an ID?
Minor fees for some. It’s often the paperwork, time, proof of id, and locations that become the barrier. We don’t have national IDs here, but use a stupid Social Security Number that was never designed for the purpose and is literally sequential at birth. This makes proof of identity a task.
It was almost $40 just to renew my DL in my county. I swear it wasn’t as much in the last county I lived in, but it was just insane.
There’s usually discount programs for low-income folks, but the interesting part is needing proof of being low-income. Sometimes homeless shelters will transport people and help them fill out the paperwork and they have vouchers for the fee.
It’s crazy that all of that is needed when every data broker and arm of the government knows what you had for breakfast yesterday, but you still have to jump through this many hoops yourself to get something with your name on it.
Because rich people don’t want to pay any taxes.
Hinest question. Without ID how do you know who they are? How do you know they haven’t already voted?
The way Iowa does it, to my understanding, is they gather and a number of people speak in favor of candidates, and they take the poll live. So it’s a good evening at the polling site.
I hear that argument all the time and I don’t buy it. You need photo ID to get a job, have a bank account, see a doctor, get a prescription, buy smokes/alcohol/adult video games/legal weed, drive a car, and by extension have insurance, rent a place to live, get a mortgage.
The only significantly large group who don’t do any of that are the Amish.
In many states you have to present multiple forms of ID to get ID. Its a catch 22 in many places that disproportionately affects lower income people. If you lose your ID in Florida, depending on your residency status and whether the Tax Collector’s office is enforcing rules, you may have to present birth certificate or a Social Security Card. To get a copy of your Social Security Card, you have to have a valid photo ID. Birth certificates require a permanent residence, access to online payment (bank account), and internet access to the right websites.
A lot of lower income people don’t have mortgages, drive, see medical professionals regularly, etc. Part of that is because of the barriers to easily getting a replacement ID that exist.
I worked with these individuals for years, and the amount of burden that it put people under was immense. In just my location alone I helped hundreds of people each year navigate government systems to get ID and aid. Its laughable how hard it is for the people wbo need help to access the programs that are currently in place.
I think the main problem is that IDs accepted by banks are not always valid for voting. I remember that in some state gun permit was valid for voting but student ID wasn’t. It’s all designed to skew the results just so slightly. Also, 5% of Americans don’t have a bank account. In close elections those numbers matter.
There’s a whole bunch of comments explaining how low-income people aren’t able to do those things either, especially banking, and how that adds to the cycle of poverty. For anyone actually interested in an answer about what life is like for impoverished working people in the US, I would recommend reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and Evicted by Matthew Desmond. The level of poverty that exists in America generally is, and should be, shocking to the average American. I really hope the Amish comment is a joke because it’s so so incredibly wrong.
And I’m saying I don’t buy the argument that there is any significant number of people who want to vote, really, sincerely want to vote, but gosh darn, they just can’t get ID.
In a world where you need ID to do pretty much anything.
Go read that book.
How old are you that you still get carded for cigarettes? What doctor do you go to that requires photo ID? You do not need photo ID to rent a place. You are just making half that shit up.
Definitely concur that half that list is made-up. The key point they’re missing is that nothing on that list is a right bestowed upon us. It shouldn’t cost you money in order to vote in an election.
I have been required to show a photo ID for all of those things regularly throughout my entire life. Maybe you haven’t, and maybe some people don’t, but I have in several states.
None of the things you just said are, or even should be, prerequisites to vote.
No, they are pre-requisites to be an adult in America.
I’m usually not one to mock someone for their appearance, but people who bed with fascists get little sympathy from me.
Holy shit that makeup looks terrible.
(Most) People don’t choose their faces, but do choose their makeup. I think you’re ok on this one.
The first thing I did when I saw the thumbnail was google pictures of her to see if her makeup is always that bad. Turns out, it’s almost never good, but this is a particularly bad look. Whoever does her makeup (maybe her) is doing so many things that make her look like a cartoon witch, which is kind of hilarious tbh, since she sucks.
Maybe it’s because my phone is on the lowest brightness setting, but it looks much better to me than I was expecting after your comment.
Dumb and Dumber.
It had its own penalty. Iowans don’t like non Iowans participating in their caucus. He will definitely lose votes.
Other than the primaries, what else do they have?
Corn?
Let them have their thing.
Popcorn …must get more popcorn…
