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If it was, Republicans would just find another way to suppress the vote. This isn't about citizenship or the integrity of the electoral process. It's about the GOP knowing that the fewer people vote, the better for their fascist and therefore unpopular party.
That's already in place, though. When voting, you have to supply your name, address and voter registration.
If no citizen with that name is registered to that address, you don't get to vote.
It's a pernicious lie that people in any significant number is able or even attempting to vote without indirectly proving their citizenship and even requiring "free and simple" (which it probably won't be to some people anyway) direct proof will suppress the vote whether that's your attention or not.
Because currently there's no consequences for Republican politicians and their media echo chamber willfully misleading the people with their lies. In fact, the corrupt system encourages it.
Ceding ground to their demagoguery doesn't make it go away. They'll just have that more power to suppress the vote in additional ways.
Nope. See above.
It VERY much does. Any unnecessary obstacle to voting is undemocratic in the same way as a poll tax is and requiring direct proof of something you're already indirectly proven is unnecessary.
You VASTLY underestimate the number of people for whom voting is already unnecessarily difficult and who will be at a greater risk of not being able to justify the cost of voting the more obstacles are thrown in their way.
Especially when you consider that in person voter fraud is so rare as to be statistically nonexistent and is never non eligible people trying to vote.
That you display your ignorance in a supremely condescending way doesn't help either.
It does when you consider how effective lying their ass off is in the current system.
They aren't right about any of this. They just have the money and media echo chamber to get their point repeated so much that impressionable people such as yourself are fooled into thinking that they are.