lol. Good point. Also, most (if not all) states have laws requiring employers to give employees paid time off to vote.
I'm all for voter ID laws. I find it ludicrous that one can vote without proving one is entitled to vote to begin with.
But we both know that while the law says that, many of the lower-income people won't really be protected anyways - and they are the ones that need the protection the most in a way. The University won't fire me for going to vote and if they did, it would be no skin off my back - I can get a nice job in my chosen field in industry in under a month; an academic job would take longer, but I wouldn't be too pressed.
A woman with two kids that loses her waitressing evening job? Not so lucky, is she?
My point is that even if her employer follows the letter of the law - giving her paid time off to vote - she still be punished in other ways: fewer shifts, firing (“cutbacks”), etc. - all completely unrelated to the voting of course.
I don't think this really warrants a change and no law could really fix it anyways; just pointing out that the law in question is nice in theory but not very helpful in practice. But as I said, I don't think this is a problem: people who
want to vote have options available today, from early voting to voting by mail, to absentee ballots.