If it is intentionally made hard for citizens to get ID that counts yes. If the government makes ID free and easy to obtain and actively works to make sure everyone has it, then no. Still pointless though because voter fraud effectively doesn’t exist. The issue is that Republicans (who are proposing these laws) are openly doing it to manipulate election outcomes.

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It’s not oppressive on its own, but what are oppressive is the barriers that are put in place for people to prevent people from getting IDs in the first place such as fees, limited availability of ID services, and the extensive documentation requirements that not everyone has regular access to.

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It’s oppressive if the government doesn’t make IDs free and easily accessible

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Voter ID is not oppressive in a vacuum. However, one would be remiss to ignore the history of using facially neutral Voter ID laws to achieve oppressive results. We’ve seen Republicans in the South do the “Pass Voter ID laws and then close the DMVs in Black neighborhoods” move before to suppress the Black vote. It’s not that Voter ID alone is a bad idea, it’s that I don’t trust the people pushing for it to use it honestly.

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