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[quote=Anonymous]Getting an ID requires multiple other documents. I've lived in the same place for 2 decades, in the same city for 3 and a half decades, and own my home. I was married once and born in another state. I had lost track of birth and marriage records some years ago along with SS card--disappeared during a remodel. It took awhile to gather all those documents to renew my drivers license (read ID, which is now required for voting where I live)--and I already had my existing drivers license to help obtain them. The birth certificate could only be ordered by mail, from a state that (btw) sends out drivers licenses by mail (which takes a few weeks) rather than issuing them at the DOT location. Then an appointment (started pre-covid because otherwise you could wait in line all day) which meant finding an open slot. It would have been much more complicated if I had not already had ID or if I had been married more than once. I have a friend who needed his birth certificate--from New Orleans--and I know he went for months trying (from out of state) with no luck.

You can cash a check in a small town where everyone knows you if that's where you live. In fact, I have cashed checks in the small town where my brother lives and where my parents lived when they were alive, because the lady at the grocery store started there when she was a teenager (we are about the same age). I only make it for a visit once a year but still can do it. There are older people who have had the same back account they started before ID requirements and who don't drive and, living in an area like that, have no need for a state ID.

Native Americans have a particularly hard time, as reservation addresses often do not meet voter ID requirements. A lot of poor people move around a lot due to unstable housing. In North Dakota, Heidi Heitkamp won partly because there was a large turnout of Native American voters, who are a larger percentage of the population than many other states. When she ran again after the Kavanaugh business, upgraded voter ID requirements created huge problems for both college students and Native American voters, disenfranchising many of them.

You can get benefits like food stamps without ID or birth certificate. Laws and regs allow programs to use other means of verifying identity for the very reason that ID documents may be lacking. And what happens if the wallet with the ID is lost or stolen shortly before the election? The time it can take to replace the ID can be longer than required for election certification even if you cast a provisional ballot.

There are ample records in southern states especially demonstrating that the PURPOSE of voter ID laws and other restrictions was to limit black voting. [/quote]

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