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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]

Exactly. And not that OP will read this, but it affects older people a great deal.

For Older Voters, Getting The Right ID Can Be Especially Tough

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/07/644648955/for-older-voters-getting-the-right-id-can-be-especially-tough

Three dozen states require voters to show identification at the polls. [b]And almost half of those states want photo IDs. But there are millions of eligible voters who don't have them. A 2012 survey estimated that 7 percent of American adults lack a government-issued photo ID.[/b]

While some organizations have sued to overturn these laws, a nonprofit organization called Spread The Vote has taken a different tack: It helps people without IDs get them. And people over 50 years of age have presented some of their biggest challenges.

On a recent Tuesday morning in Austell, Ga., 53-year-old Pamela Moon tried to get a replacement for an ID she had lost. She worked with a Spread The Vote volunteer at the Sweetwater Mission. The group sends volunteers to the mission every other Tuesday, so that people who come for food and clothes can get help obtaining a Georgia ID at the same time.

Georgia is one of seven states with particularly strict voter ID requirements, which demand that voters show a government-issued photo ID in order to cast a ballot in person. Advocates for voter ID laws argue that showing identification at the polls reduces the incidence of voter fraud, although studies have repeatedly shown that in-person voter fraud is extremely rare.

Moon never had a driver's license. "I can drive," she said, but she never got her license, "'cause I can't afford to buy no car."

Bill Cox, a volunteer for Spread The Vote, told Moon she needs a birth certificate to get a replacement ID. She lost that, too, she said.

"We will help you get that," Cox told her. "We will pay for it."

This is a relief for Moon. [b]In Georgia, the cost of a birth certificate and a photo ID is $57 and she lives mostly off her disability benefits. In fact, studies show that most people who lack official state IDs are low income and they have more urgent concerns than just voting.[/b]

57 bucks is outrageous. It's a poll tax, and is should be unconstitutional.

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I agree. And for many, there would also be transportation costs to and from the DMV. More areas really need to have DMV express locations accessible by public transportation. [/quote]

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