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expedition32yesterday at 6:01 PM1 replyview on HN

Trump expects half of the US to get a passport in the next 6 months.

These kind of fundamental changes require years of preparation. Either Trump is an incompetent moron or he has ulterior motives.


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bilbo0syesterday at 6:18 PM

He's trying to prevent poor people from voting.

Requiring poor people to pay a hefty fee, which they probably don't have, to get a passport seems a fairly competent way to go about making sure poor people don't vote to me.

If I don't want poor people voting, then attaching a fee to voting doesn't mean I'm incompetent. It means I'm smart enough to know poor people don't have money.

By the way, I think all of this is horrible. Everyone should be equal before the law and should have their vote count without having to pay for that right. I'm just pointing out that this is a really good way to eliminate the vote of the poor.

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