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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. You don't actually need an ID for most of those.  Businesses often ask for one as a means of limiting their liability but one isn't strictly required.  Air travel is the big exception.

2.  There are often a variety of different documents one can use in those circumstances.  It is not strictly limited to one specific type.

3.  The new voter rules being pushed tend to limit things to one specific form of ID.  For example, one of the Dakotas limited it to a state issued drivers license with a street address.  It just so happens that Native Americans that lived on the reservation tended to have a Tribal Authority ID and did not have a standard street address.  Notice that a passport doesn't count under those rules.

At this point a national voter ID is probably a good idea just to make this issue go away.  Ironically, there is a lot of overlap between people against a national ID but for ID requirements for voting.[/quote]

The people who think it is simple for everyone to have a valid ID are middle-income and up white people who own homes and stay in one place for 30/40 years or until black families move into their neighborhoods.

Low and moderate income people, especially in urban areas, are less likely to have a long-term fixed address. They tend to move around quite a bit, and occasionally live with other people who may or may not be related to them, their names might not be on the lease or utility bills or the other documents required for an ID, and they may not be planning to stay in that place long enough to bother updating an ID with an old address on it. Those are people that Republicans want to disenfranchise.

There also is a history of conservative counties with colleges in them trying to prevent students from registering and voting locally with their school IDs. A few Virginia counties tried that back in 2008 and 2012 against Obama and courts had to make them allow students to register. Now they have to let them register but they will purge them after every election so the students have to re-register to be able to vote again the next year even if they haven't moved from their campus address. [/quote]

Indeed.  A national voter ID, which would not have a fixed address, could supercede all that.  They'd then go back to complaining about government control[/quote]

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