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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is an interesting point however - the people who have the most problem getting birth certificates are older/rural folks (usually rural black voters) who might have been born out of hospital or in a completely different location from where they live now. And who were born in a time before any digital records. I could see a time in the fairly near future where everyone has access to digital records so birth certificates will be much easier to track down. Wonder what the next voter suppression strategy will be after that. Polls only open 9-5 on Election Day? Getting rid of all early voting? Making people re-register after every election? Return of the poll tax? Only half joking about that last one. [/quote]

The voting rights ID issue is a part of a bigger ID crisis.

There are a lot of poor people, and especially homeless people, who lack ID, or any ability to get ID, because they've lost their old ID, and they lack any ability to get what they need to qualify to receive new ID.

Or, they may even have some or all of the right documents, but, if they lack what the government classifies as an address, they may have trouble getting ID because they have no address.

We probably ought to have a federal agency, or a system of state agencies, that does nothing but create provisional IDs that poor people can use to get emergency food and medical services.[/quote]

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