I don't want to relitigate the 2020 election results. I'll just say there were "irregularities" in Fulton and Dekalb counties. Before you ask, Biden won Georgia and was certified the winner.
There are plenty of laws in place to protect minorities from your parade of horribles. The youngest person who voted in 1964 (24th Amendment), the year poll tax abolished, would now be 83.
I understand what you are saying. I just don't believe election integrity is a frivolous concern or a non-existent threat and when you weigh it against the miniscule "cost" of requiring an ID to vote, it's worth it.
The Voting Rights Act is outdated as per the Supreme Court. There are other ways of protecting folks from disenfranchisement than relying on an Act from the 1960s designed to combat Jim Crow laws.
Case by case basis using a cost/benefit approach. Yes, it's stupid to spend $100 to prevent a virtually impossible occurrence. I just believe my assertion of voters' concern about election integrity outweighs the minimal if any cost of requiring an ID.
I reject the premise of your question - that I have a "preference for white people." Plus, I don't see controlling guns as an effective deterrence to homicide unless you literally confiscate the 393M guns currently in civilian hands. The number of murders reduced by such action is exponentially outweighed by the cost of confiscating the guns (civil unrest/deaths of law enforcement if not a civil war).
Holy shit, you are capable of intelligent discourse! Check it out. If only you were like this more often, and like your other trolling persona less often. I don't agree with most of this, but at least it's cogent.
1. Part of the problem in this debate is that the measures under debate are typically low-cost and low-benefit. As conservatives say, it's not hard to get an ID and everyone is used to producing it. But as liberals say, the whole idea is combatting a problem that not only doesn't exist, but it can't really exist. So we get this debate over whether a useless but mostly harmless policy is a good idea.
Personally, I agree with you that election integrity is important; I think election integrity is best served by eschewing useless policies unless they are completely harmless, which they are not per everyone's admission.
2. You still didn't answer the question about how to resolve contrasting claims of right here -- why we should privilege the "elections might be stolen by illegals" narrative over the "elections, especially in the south, are not fair to minorities" narrative? The latter is more firmly grounded. Can you give a principled reason for preferring your narrative over the other? See, that's where the rubber hits the road, don't you think?
3. If you're going case-by-case with a cost benefit approach, that would suggest getting rid of voter ID. There are no actual benefits and some costs.
4. The Voting Rights Act was renewed in 2007 by a unanimous vote of the Senate. 98-0, I believe. That suggests to me that the VRA is very much not outdated. The Supreme Court started killing it methodically starting in 2009, and continuing through Shelby County, Brnovich and the monstrosity to come next term. In what way would you say it's outdated?
I'm really not interested in what five partisan, unethical, bribe-taking ideologues have to say about a bill that passed the Senate unanimously. The latter is far more informative than the former. If the preclearance requirement was so unfair, why didn't any Senator vote against it? Not a one. In the House, there were 30 nays, but that's still overwhelming bipartisanship.
5. There are plenty of laws in place to prevent your parade of horribles. There actually aren't that many laws protecting minority voting and the ones that exist are under grave danger. The Eighth Circuit has already cut them off at the knees and if that holding (that there is no private right of action under section 2) were to be nationalized, there would be no protections at all.
6. You're right that gun control isn't the greatest analogy for the reason you point out. But let's say we could wave a magic wand and get rid of all guns. Would you support that? You know as a prophylactic to murder? Somehow I doubt it.