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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably thousands.

There are plenty of older folks who were born in the rural south who are living in DC now and may not have ever had a birth certificate.[/quote]

Thousands of old people who never drove, never served in the military, never opened a bank account, never sent a kid to school?

If they ever filed for taxes they have a SSN and could get a social security card from the SSA in ten minutes. Where is this group of thousands? [/quote]

Social security cards do not have a picture. Picture identification is what is required when a person’s identity is questioned. [/quote]

I think that the point is that once you have spent the ten minutes to get a Social Security Card, you can use that to get a DMV ID Card. The Social Security Card makes it pretty strait forward to obtain further identification. DC actually makes obtaining an ID pretty strait forward, though DMV services are a nightmare during the pandemic.[/quote]

Without a birth certificate, it is almost impossible. And there are many many people who either cannot obtain one or where they simply didn't exist in the first place.

Figure out how to deal with those and then you can make voter ID mandatory. Until then, it is suppressing disproprotionately the poor and minority populations.[/quote]

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