IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access (krebsonsecurity.com) 240
If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. From a report: The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me, an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device. McLean, Va.-based ID.me was originally launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers who might be eligible for discounts at various retail establishments, such as veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders.
These days, ID.me is perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves. The privately-held company says it has approximately 64 million users, and gains roughly 145,000 new users each day. Some 27 states already use ID.me to screen for identity thieves applying for benefits in someone else's name, and now the IRS is about to join them. The service requires applicants to supply a great deal more information than typically requested for online verification schemes, such as scans of their driver's license or other government-issued ID, copies of utility or insurance bills, and details about their mobile phone service.
These days, ID.me is perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves. The privately-held company says it has approximately 64 million users, and gains roughly 145,000 new users each day. Some 27 states already use ID.me to screen for identity thieves applying for benefits in someone else's name, and now the IRS is about to join them. The service requires applicants to supply a great deal more information than typically requested for online verification schemes, such as scans of their driver's license or other government-issued ID, copies of utility or insurance bills, and details about their mobile phone service.
What if you don't have or want a 'mobile device'? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re: What if you don't have or want a 'mobile devic (Score:5, Insightful)
Most PC's have video cameras as well that you can use, you can get one for under $20.
For a website that is suppose to be science and technology focused they sure are a lot of users of Slashdot, who have issues with using new as in 15 year old technologies.
Chances are if you are going online to use the IRS services, then you are going to have a somewhat modern set of equipment. Trying to use the Web in 2022 with a Pentium PC running Windows 98 probably wont cut it. Even if you put a modern version of Linux on that system, I am guessing using a new version of Firefox or Chromium is going to be painful.
If you want to function in society, there will be some things that you might need to buy to work with it. Paper and Stamps if you are going via Mail. A telephone with a Lan Line for Telephone, you may need to get a Radio or a Television to receive daily news. You will need a Computer or a Smartphone to access websites.
Being that most computers and nearly all phones (even the non-smart ones) have Cameras on them, it isn't unreasonable that we require such functionality. Especially if it will help better secure the information.
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Most PC's have video cameras as well that you can use, you can get one for under $20.
That's an awfully selfish stance to assume others are also so selfish as to not consider that third parties might be poor or unable to figure out how to use an add-on camera. This is not something that should be required. The paper documents are arcane compared to the online setup, which really just amounts to copy/paste from your online worksheet to IRS's pages.
This really isn't that hard (Score:4, Informative)
That's an awfully selfish stance to assume others are also so selfish as to not consider that third parties might be poor or unable to figure out how to use an add-on camera.
Go to the library. They'll have the equipment and the people who can help you use it.
Or skip the camera-based verification altogether; it's not required. From TFA:
The service requires applicants to supply ... scans of their driver’s license or other government-issued ID, copies of utility or insurance bills, and details about their mobile phone service.
When an applicant doesn’t have one or more of the above — or if something about their application triggers potential fraud flags — ID.me may require a recorded, live video chat with the person applying for benefits.
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"Go to the library. They'll have the equipment and the people who can help you use it."
Yes, use a 'secure' system with a library machine where every day dozens of strangers try to install malware on.
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I love it.
So just showing an ID to vote, the ID you need to drive a car, get a job, buy alcohol, open a bank account, or anything else in modern life, is somehow "racist" and "suppressive". But if you want to use the IRS online, you will have to have cameras, or mobile devices, and and ID and send your ID and photos and phone numbers, and whatever else nonsense, and/or somehow make it to a library that has available/working webcams (good luck) for some type of scheduled (good luck) video chat. And all tha
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The difference is that if you don't have the right ID, you can't vote.
If you don't have access to a camera or internet, you can still do your taxes by mail.
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If 99% of people had the right ID, the Republicans wouldn't care because it wouldn't help them. We also wouldn't see voting decrease sharply in areas where it is implemented.
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For a website that is suppose to be science and technology focused they sure are a lot of users of Slashdot, who have issues with..
Are you new? The users here have an issue with literally everything. In the highly unlikely chance they can't find an issue with the content of TFA, then they take issue with the Submitter, calling them a shill or the article a slashvertisement.
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Not to mention you haven't even considered that you don't even need a camera for a video.
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Or maybe they know the pitfalls of requiring log-ins through a private company that collects facial recognition data as well as scanning and OCRing images of private bills and identification documents.
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Two things, I recommend you try being poor #1, #2 (Score:2)
you're talking mostly to the men behind the curtain who have seen lots of epic fuck ups and don't trust the technology because they know how shitty it actually is in implementation - regardless of however good the intentions that manifested it are - the road to hell is still paved.
Re: What if you don't have or want a 'mobile devi (Score:2, Interesting)
Of course, the IBS never thought for a second that a criminal can get a selfie off the internet and use that for their vile activities. The IBS also never thought that this is just a speed bump for organized criminals. I'm sure though that the IBS knows this will screw and be further invasive to honest citizens, and of course "fuck you, we're the government".
And no, I did not spell that particular scary 3 letter agency's acronym wrong.
Re: What if you don't have or want a 'mobile devic (Score:5, Insightful)
Okay. Electronic filing benefits the IRS more that it benefits me. I've been mailing in my return for years.
The real problem is ID.me. This is a private company sucking on the government teat that will soon have way too much power and virtually no oversight.
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Really? Like with a stamp and stuff? Sounds pretty inconvenient
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It take me about 10 minutes to do my personal federal taxes on paper. It takes a full hour to do the same with tax-prep software.
Give should give paper a try. You'll be amazed at how quick and easy it is.
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I just sign a few forms, no pictures necessary and she files it all electronically.
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How much did that cost?
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Fortunately for you this has nothing to do with efile. I've never had to create an account to efile, from what I remember for authentication there is either a PIN or you enter your last year's AGI. I believe this is more for self-employed people who need to submit quarterly taxes or business owners submitting withheld taxes.
They already do, by their own gloating. (Score:4, Informative)
About ID.me
ID.me simplifies how individuals prove and share their identity online. The ID.me secure digital identity network has more than 39 million members with over 70,000 new subscribers joining daily, as well as partnerships with 22 states, multiple federal agencies, and over 400 name brand retailers. The company provides identity proofing, authentication and group affiliation verification for organizations across sectors. The company's technology meets the highest federal standards and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 conformant credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is the only provider with video chat and is committed to "No Identity Left Behind" to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. To learn more, visit https://www.id.me/ [www.id.me]
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Re:What if you don't have or want a 'mobile device (Score:4, Informative)
You can't force me to buy and use a smartphone.
I have never owned a smartphone. I had no problem signing up with ID.me to opt-out of the Child Test Credit prepayments last year.
The process was essentially to take pictures of all my documents (including a "selfie"), upload them, and then have a Zoom call with ID.me where I held each document while they took screenshots.
Technically, it was a headache. I played drunk moron to make it worse for the poor agent on the other end. Would not wish this process on anyone over 60.
Re:What if you don't have or want a 'mobile device (Score:4, Insightful)
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I would've gone paper. Really, why waste your time, and torment an 'agent' who has no real power and go through this whole circus?
It seems in this day and age, paper is increasingly becoming the better/easier option for a lot of things. :-\
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this is an call from ID.ME about your IRS issue (Score:5, Insightful)
this is an call from ID.ME about your IRS issue if you don't give us all of your info over the phone now we will call the cops to take you to jail.
Re:this is an call from ID.ME about your IRS issue (Score:5, Interesting)
You poke fun (and rightly so) but it'll be much more subtle:
"Due to a corruption in our database, your image has become partially obscured, please send a new picture to this address (insert malicious site or even one like google drive masquerading as the IRS) and we'll start restoring your account immediately."
Re:this is an call from ID.ME about your IRS issue (Score:5, Insightful)
You poke fun (and rightly so) but it'll be much more subtle:
"Due to a corruption in our database, your image has become partially obscured, please send a new picture to this address (insert malicious site or even one like google drive masquerading as the IRS) and we'll start restoring your account immediately."
You forgot the bitcoin address so you can pay your fee to get this solved.
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Odd timing (Score:5, Insightful)
Who in their right mind implements this at the same time as real-time DeepFakes are becoming a thing? Do you really want to bet on how long before you'll be able to download an app for it?
Fuck your flying car, I want FTL X-Wings? (Score:3, Interesting)
Dude, it's better than passwords, assuming it was implemented correctly and they certainly can be used in conjunction.
Fighting fraud is an arms race. The better countermeasures you develop, the better the fraudsters will get. That's just life. Don't shit on improvement just because it is not perfection.
Video verification can do a lot to stop d
Re: Fuck your flying car, I want FTL X-Wings? (Score:3)
Dude, it's better than passwords, assuming it was implemented correctly and they certainly can be used in conjunction.
It's! Really! Fucking! Not!
So to authenticate with the tax office you need to upload a whole bunch of sensitive personal information to some arbitrary 3rd party chosen by them.
A publicly traded company with shareholders who *will* demand that the company further monetize the trove of information by selling it to the highest bidder.
A company which could go bankrupt and be sold off along with your information at any time.
A company which fills it's websites with terms like "military grade"... And in reality pr
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To deep fake something you have to have something to train on, which probably means you'd need a photo of the individual anyway.
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Re:Why? It's already secure. (Score:4)
The government putting up artificial barriers of entry to make it difficult to pay? I'm shocked I tell you! Are they taking lessons from the entertainment industry on how difficult it is to to buy (older) movies and TV shows? /s
Re:Why? It's already secure. (Score:5, Insightful)
"The government putting up artificial barriers of entry to make it difficult to comply "?
FTFY
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My wife tried to sign up and was unable to pass the photo verification, as it kept saying there was glare on the photo of her driver's license. She contacted support and received a canned response that said she should try again, though the support request indicated she'd tried from a mobile phone, tablet, and laptop.
Maybe they're better at it now?
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To verify my identity, they asked questions about my own finances.
Yeah, I pretty much never get past those ones. In the past, I finally figured out that checking overdraft protection I'd had with one bank (but no longer had on that account) had somehow been turned into a record of an installment loan (for $0). The last time I got one of these it was trying to order my yearly free credit report. I can't be sure what question they think I got wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was the one where it asked if I had a checking account with a particular bank. I don't have a checking
Well that sucks! (Score:5, Interesting)
Id.me is a flaming pile of dog shit. My wife and i tried to set it up so we could decline the early child tax credit payments (because I always owe at the end of year anyway). After 4 devices and 2 hours of trying still could not get registered.
I won't both in the future, paper forms and stamps or third parties like H&R Block it is when dealing the the IRS.
And if you are a commercial operator and you try and subject me to that garbage; I will move on to someone competitor and that is promise. FUCK ID.me
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Re:Well that sucks! (Score:5, Informative)
I had a similar experience for the same basic reason.
It was overwhelmingly the most horrible ID verification experience I have ever had. Their "easy" facial recognition system wouldn't match my face to the photo of my ID in spite of many many tries (different lights, different camera, different background), which eventually locked me out of that system. After it quit letting me attempt facial recognition, in addition to repeatedly having to enter my information, I was forced to do a video call and hold up my driver's license, and it took trying several devices to get that to work.
There really should be some sort of legal case against this interaction being required. To my knowledge there was no other way to complete this transaction except to go through ID.me. There should always be an option to snail mail a form.
How else is the data being used? (Score:5, Insightful)
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It is starting to look like a video selfie is becoming de rigueur for online ID nowadays. coinbase.com wanted one from me when I signed up with that outfit.
Re:How else is the data being used? (Score:4, Informative)
So the IRS is creating a one stop shop (Score:2)
Makes total sense... (Score:2)
I mean, don't we all do our taxes now on our cell phones? So of course limiting id verification to a selfie from your cell will make total sense...
Then I will stop doing anything (Score:2)
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Well, everyone was saying how necessary the internet was in their lives. Now they know what it feels like when it's necessary fort everyone else.
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online with the US government and go back to pen, paper and USPS.
Then, they will take away that option, or make using it extremely onerous.
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What for? (Score:2)
Sure. I can send them a selfie. But the machine I usually log on from doesn't have a camera. So how will they know it's me sitting at the keyboad?
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Sure. I can send them a selfie. But the machine I usually log on from doesn't have a camera. So how will they know it's me sitting at the keyboad?
They won't let you log in from that machine, obviously.
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Your mistake is thinking that this is about security. This is about funneling a ton of money to a private company who knows how to keep the wheels greased, ifyouknowwhatImean.
What did Tony the Tiger say? It's Grrrrift!
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It's probably to combat the widespread fraud with people filing for returns online
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Is there widespread fraud though? I'd like to see some evidence of that before we give a lot of money and power to a private company.
When I've asked about the evidence for alleged massive/widespread fraud, I'm assured that tons of it exists, but it never seems to actually show up.
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With taxes? Yes - and even more so with the PPP loans. Plenty of real stories about that. I don't think a single private identity provider is the way to go. Not even sure why it has to be limited to one choice in company.
Onerous (Score:2)
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Today's netizens barely talk anymore, but prefer to communicate through selfies and memes instead.
What? I argue with people on forums and the comment sections of sites all the time.
Everyone else is always wrong, and I'm always right. I don't see the problem.
Forbes had a good article on this last year (Score:5, Insightful)
But the privacy policy for taxpayers preparing to enter their information into the portal also says that ID.me "may disclose or share Non-Personally Identifiable Information with Third-Party Service Providers and Affiliates."
It defines non-personally identifiable information as information that doesn't identify a specific user and that "may include things like the Uniform Resource Locator ('URL') of the website you visited before coming to the Website, the URL of the website you visit after leaving the Website, the type of browser you are using, your Internet Protocol IP address, occupation, language, unique device identifier, approximate geographic location, and time zone."
Full story: Forbes: The Emerging Taxpayer Data Protection Problem [forbes.com]
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It defines non-personally identifiable information as information that doesn't identify a specific user and that "may include things like the Uniform Resource Locator ('URL') of the website you visited before coming to the Website, the URL of the website you visit after leaving the Website, the type of browser you are using, your Internet Protocol IP address, occupation, language, unique device identifier, approximate geographic location, and time zone."
Ah, so everything marketers need to identify a person
Too bad (Score:5, Informative)
Too bad there isn't some system which offers the public one account for government...
https://www.login.gov/ [login.gov] ...oh...well...except for THAT one I mean. THAT one is used for trusted traveler programs, and obviously one's passport and drivers license aren't as strong for identification as a selfie and a utility bill.
Our government is such a joke.
Re:Too bad (Score:5, Insightful)
It's cute that you think this is government inefficiency. This is a sleazy private company working with sleazy politicians to steal as much money as they can from the American taxpayer. You know all the calls to privatize the post office? It's the same scam, just on a smaller scale. That's probably why it worked.
Write your congress critter.
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As part of this, they've disabled the login.gov access to the IRS.
I remember when it was considered a bad thing to use the same login credentials on multiple services, because it made for an easy attack surface - compromise one account, you have them all.
Now, with Single Sign On, the attack surface is still small. It's just the level of hype over how hard it is to sign on and own all associated SSO accounts that changes.
What about tax software? (Score:4, Interesting)
Does this affect people doing electronic submission of their taxes via third party tax prep software packages like TurboTax too?
Re:What about tax software? (Score:4, Insightful)
I doubt it. H&R Block and Intuit are big companies. ID.me knows better than to encroach on their turf. A gang war could ruin the scam for everyone.
Make thing more secure (Score:2)
Shady as fuck. I just got flagged by the SEC's (Score:5, Interesting)
shit website as an automated tool for trying to read ID.ME's 10 years of filings. [sec.report] This has literally never happened before in hundreds of look ups, this is an old desktop with firefox, lol. I do not think this is a coincidence, neither is the dearth of information.
Fun fact, they were called TroopSwap Inc before changing their name. That sounds like a legit business you want having all your personal and financial information, RIGHT?
They claim they've detered billions of dollars (Score:2)
in foreign fraud [prnewswire.com]. But, you can't see our financials, or who are investors are - at all, but WE'RE HEROES, TRUST US!!
There are like a dozen filings were private hedge funds/investors/whoever have been buying hundreds of millions of dollars in stake without being named under some bullshit federal law. At least Skynet was out in the open.
Their slogan is "NO IDENTITY LEFT BEHIND", that's not ominous sounding at all... /s
IRS reporting is backwards in today's world. (Score:2)
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The IRS should be sending out a 'look this is what we have, amend it with any pertinent info and return it to us'.
Wasn't someone in power recently advocating for Americans to be able to submit their taxes on a postcard, like a lot of other countries?
But of course this flies in the face of the American tradition of fake liberty. Goddamn gubmint tracking my income and TELLING ME what taxes to pay!
See, your taxes are voluntary. You fill out a bunch of papers and do a bunch of math, and it better match the math we did or else, and you better not forget anything, because we know. And then you submit those papers, and the
Unemployment too (Score:2)
My work hours were recently cut so I'm able to collect unemployment to make up the difference. I had to go through the selfie process with ID.me as well.
Things get worse as time goes on (Score:2)
STANDARD (supposed) SECURITY CRACKDOWN ARTICLE FORM REPLY
We are headed for a one world fascist government, and this article shows another piece of what's coming together.
You won't even be considered a human being anymore, instead just a 'unit', with a police identification number to identify you. You will be a forever suspect, a potential enemy of the 'state', and they will constantly watch for any little thing to hang you for. They will always be hungry for your blood.
People l
Become unpersons (Score:3)
Re:But photo ID for voting is bad? (Score:5, Insightful)
I am going to assume this is a good faith question but the issue of Voter ID is not opposed on it's face but in how it has been historically implemented, as we have many confiemd examples of it being used as a poll tax against the poor and minorities and many restrictions on which ID's would be accepted, as we saw in North Carolina where the law was struck down because the law "was motivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American voters,".
Without proof of widespread voter fraud (which has not surfaced) the burden is on proponents to show how this would enhance the majority of citizens ability to vote. We are after all talking about voting here the fundamental right of living in a democratic society. Not exaclty comparable to buying alchohol or checking into a hotel. If you are going to put up a restriction, no matter how low it may seem to you you better have a good reason and you better do it in such a way that everyone who is eligible to vote no matter their circumstances can do so.
I can totally get onboard with Voter ID since I think a standardized system would be easier that the mish mash of registration systems we have today. However I have some conditions, conditions that conservatives always seem to take issue with:
- Every citizen getting a drivers license is automatically registered to vote right there.
- Every citizen when they turn 18 if they don't have DL is automatically issued a free state ID and registered to vote.
- Non drivers license state ID is free at all times.
- Any citizen who cannot get to a local DMV such as elderly or disabled can apply to get their ID by mail or with a home visit by a state worker.
- Any citizen missing a birth certificate or other piece of information needed to prove their citizenship in accordance with obtaining said ID is entitled to free assistance via the state for obtaining said documents.
If we can agree to those base rules then I don't know of many people who have an issue with Voter ID. Basically if I am a US citizen and any money has to change hands for me to exercise my ability to vote is an undue burden and a nonstarter. Frankly I have not seen a case made how existing registration systems are any less secure than whatever ID system is being proposed. If there is a state that already does an ID system that passes all that muster then we should look to emulate that.
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Pretty much every state that requires state issued ID to vote, will generate and create and give you that ID for free.
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And every state requires you to present an ID to be registered in the first place so the burden is still on the people pushing for firther ID requirements as to what advantage they offer.
My point is really if the people pushing for further ID laws why would there by any opposition to making it easier to get said ID? Shouldn't we all strive to make voting as friction free for those who are eligible as possible?
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You pretty much covered my objection to voter ID laws. First the IDs and any documents or proof required to get them must be free. Although, even if the IDs and documents are free, if they need to be applied for in person and are only available during limited business hours or where people without cars would need to travel 50 miles in rural parts of the country, that also presents a problem for them.
I would also add that all documents required to get the ID and the ID itself would need to be available by ma
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Yes and frankly I would undoubtedly support VoterID laws if it came with all those specifics you lined out since that means more access for people to vote overall which is good. Just like I support universal mail-in voting for every Federal election as more people voting is good for our democracy and despite what some people feel an increased voter pool does not favor either party overall in the results.
In my perfect world voting is not just easy but in fact mandatory but that's a whole different discussio
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I would also push for a government department whose members have the job of doing all the legwork required to get an ID for anyone who falls through the cracks. If someone is a 75 year old retiree, born near the border at a hospital whose records have been lost and lived in the same small town all their life and never had a drivers license, the burden shouldn't be on them to spend a decade and 10's of thousands of dollars to prove that they were born in the country. That burden should be entirely on the gov
Re:But photo ID for voting is bad? (Score:5, Insightful)
Then the solution is obviously for everyone to be given a free ID by the government to vote so the person never has to register, and it's valid for a lifetime. The only thing the person has to do is update the photo every decade.
Or isn't that what Republicans want?
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They're ok with that as long as the process to get the "free" ID is you have to wait at a DMV office across town for 5 hours in democratic districts. Oh and that office is going to have to scale back its hours to only be open 4 hours a day.
Re:But photo ID for voting is bad? (Score:4, Insightful)
Photo ID for voting is great. Making it harder for folks to get a photo ID at the same time is a dick move.
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So long as there is a legal requirement for their to be a DMV for every X number of people withing Y miles and they must be open Z hours a day, then it's fine. The problem is when they start closing DMVs to disenfranchise would-be voters: https://www.truthorfiction.com... [truthorfiction.com]
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I'm okay with voter ID as long as people are automatically issued a valid ID and no cost. Anything less is a poll tax, which is really what this is about.
While they're issuing IDs, they might as well automatically register everyone eligible to vote. Wouldn't that be great? More people voting makes for a healthy democracy!
Oh? You don't actually want people to vote and voter ID is all about suppressing the vote? Yeah, we figured. So, why the elaborate lie? Why not just come out and say that you hate de
Make it a national holiday (Score:2)
Make election day a national paid holiday. Now there is no excuse. But uh oh too many brown people may show up.
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Make election day a national paid holiday.
Won't work. Much of the minority voting is aimed at "Souls to the Polls" [nytimes.com]. Even a move to limit Sunday voting to begin at 1:00PM has run into problems. The pastors don't want even that cooling off period following the sermon. Encouraging people to think about it for two days simply won't do.
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I think their argument is that they think poor people get the day off on national holidays. Gas stations are open on national holidays last I checked.
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Democrats like to claim that Republicans use various laws such as voter ID — widely supported and used in nearly every major democracy on earth — to disenfranchise minority voters and steal elections. Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams are among those who actually reject election outcomes based on their theory.
But the data offer no evidence, and strongly suggest that it is not true.
The ongoing charge from Democrats is that voter ID laws, along with efforts to clean up voter rolls and limitations on early voting, have disenfranchised massive voting blocs that would otherwise help Democratic candidates. In order to make the argument seem relevant, they also claim, without evidence that these laws disproportionately affect black Americans specifically. However, as Jason L. Riley notes in the Wall Street Journal, the facts do not support these allegations.
“It just so happens that two weeks ago the Census Bureau released a report on voter turnout in 2018, which climbed 11 percentage points from the last midterm election, in 2014, and surpassed 50% for the first time since 1982,” he writes.
He adds, “Moreover, the increased turnout was largely driven by the same minority voters Democrats claim are being disenfranchised. Black turnout grew around 27%, and Hispanic turnout increased about 50%. An analysis of the census data published by the Pew Research Center found that ‘all major racial and ethnic groups saw historic jumps in voter turnout’ last year.”
“The facts of life are conservative.” -- Margaret Thatcher
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LOL! The Washington Examiner? Why not the National Enquirer? And an Opinion piece no less!
Yeah, no. I deal with facts and reality, not far-right fever dreams. Let me know when you have something like that.
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Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams are among those who actually reject election outcomes based on their theory.
Hillary Clinton conceded on November 9th. Stacy Abrams conceded under protest (she said that Kemp won, but complained about voter suppression). Four-time failed presidential candidate Donald Trump has not conceded in any fashion. He insisted that the election was rigged and stolen starting before election day in 2015 and still insists that he's the real President. That's not really the same thing as Abrams.
The ongoing charge from Democrats is that voter ID laws, along with efforts to clean up voter rolls and limitations on early voting, have disenfranchised massive voting blocs that would otherwise help Democratic candidates. In order to make the argument seem relevant, they also claim, without evidence that these laws disproportionately affect black Americans specifically. However, as Jason L. Riley notes in the Wall Street Journal, the facts do not support these allegations.
History seems to support the idea. Watch _Birth of a Nation_ some time (unless you're vey impressionab
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States that require state ID for voting do create and issue state IDs for free.
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Voter ID disenfranchises dead people. Please, think of the dead people.
In Washington D.C, you have to show your photo ID and vaccine card to go to McDonalds. But not to vote!
Stop being insensitive.
They prefer to be called "living impaired".
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Or am I missing something?
It's probably transphobic too.
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Who's playing first.
I'm not... stay out of the infield! I want to know what's the guy's name in left field?
No, What is on second.
I'm not asking you who's on second.
Who's on first!
I don't know.
(all together): Racist!
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You don't even need to use the irs.gov account to file your taxes for free. You do that through third parties. I only signed up for an account there when I started a business, so I could pay estimated taxes.