It could, but in practice never is; it's always things like "we want you to put street numbers on your drivers license, but the reservations don't have street numbers" or "We'll accept concealed carry permits, but not student IDs" or "gee, urban residents are less likely to have a driver's license, let's mandate that"
Most of them have a national ID that everybody gets, not the complex mix of IDs that the US has.
If we had that, and everybody had a national ID as a matter of routine, it wouldn't be a big deal. But we don't, because issuing one would be the mark of the beast or something.
The way voter ID laws like this prevent citizens from voting is generally considered a feature — by restricting ID forms common among the young, such as student IDs, they change the makeup of the electorate to favor Republicans.
Right. There's impeachment, but actually using it to remove people from power requires a supermajority, which makes it substantially ineffective against a criminal political party
They actually built a database of willing sycophants as part of it.
In general, preventing abuse via static rules is really difficult. People who want to abuse the system are innovative. Most systems really depend on having people who respond to the abuse by stopping it more than having specific written rules to block the kinds of abuse that have happened in the past.
Political change tends to be like that — nothing at all for a long period when you don't have the power to act, and sudden rapid change when you do.
Mostly because the progressives didn't control them in the early 1900s, so they don't have legislature-bypassing initiatives, and even in states where you do have that, it's expensive to get one through.
While I've known that for a while, a lot of the press was in utter denial months after he gave this money, as with this NYT article dated December 10, 2022
Four states don't use first-past-the-post for legislative elections. In particular:
If a third party wanted to succeed, they would put significant resources into winning legislative and congressional seats in those places. I don't see any of them actually doing that though.
They wanted to redact witness names before releasing it.
J.D. Vance Freaks Out Over the Slightest Pushback in V.P. Debate
Yeah, the ad dollars all went to Facebook and Instagram, since they're better-able to deliver the kind of targeting that advertisers want, so most local news stopped being financially viable.