Disenfranchised 92yo black woman sues just hours after NC gov. signs voter ID law

[Lee-Lee]

10. I have kind of wondered if that isn't the best strategy

With all the effort put into fighting this, we could far easier beat them at their own game by simply mobilizing and getting the people like her ID's. We have the organizational ability and people to make it happen.

Yeah, I know the ideological battle say we must fight it in court. But being pragmatic, if we mobilize, get everybody an ID, and they don't get to stop anybody from voting it would be even better- because if we beat them in court they get to keep repeating the lie that we are fighting it to enable fraud. Beat them by getting IDs and they have to watch the steady stream of minorities vote despite all their efforts.

A nice side effect is that by getting poor people who lack an ID we make their life better- they have a better chance of finding employment (most wont hire without ID), betye access to social services that require an ID, an have identification if ever needed in an encounter with the law- I can tell you that life is much harder if you are suspected of a crime and lack ID, because the police will assume you are hiding your identity. Probably 95% of people who told me they didn't have any ID were hiding their identity because they had warrants or a past, but the remaining 5% had to put up with the efforts we had to make to verify who they were.

So I understand the ideological desire to fight them in court. But I just wonder if by changing strategy we couldn't beat them at their own game, and make peoples lives better at the same time, for the same cost?