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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had no trouble getting a passport appointment with photo at my local post office for next Friday. Assuming I fill the forms in properly -they want it filled on the computer and printed out, and I bring originals and copies of the required documents, and I have the $130 fee plus $35 processing fee, then I can apply for a new passport. If I choose standard delivery, I may receive my passport in 4-6 weeks. There is a lot of fine print. It could be 4-6 weeks from when it is processed...who knows? Then I have to rely on USPS to deliver it to me. Hopefully I don't need it...I hate travel and flying, but I love voting.[/quote]

I mean, yay for you…but that doesn’t mean it’s right. Also, during Covid it was taking 6 months or more. You think 30 million women who can afford to get one, aren’t going to tie up the system. How convenient that any “backlog” the Feds announce means you can’t vote.

Please try to think more broadly. You might also start an org raising funds to help women who can’t afford it. [/quote]

+1. Imagine someone with mobility issues and on a fixed income, who now needs a passport to vote or who needs to track down their birth certificate and marriage license, who now has to trek down to the post office and deal with all this, and pay over $100 with their limited retirement savings.  If none of the PPs have ever had to deal with elder care issues (trying to get services for the elderly), they are in for a bog surprise if they think this is all OK.[/quote]

This. It’s a minor inconvenience for a young adult male, who just has to provide a birth certificate, but an Everest of a hurdle for elderly women on a fixed income who aren’t savvy about navigating the system, don’t have the additional required documentation, and don’t have someone to help.  How is this not discrimination?

Trump’s State Department will probably slow walk passports for senior citizens, women, registered Democrats, LGBTQ+, and anyone else they define as a “threat to Democracy”, meaning “won’t vote the correct way”. Get ready for staffing cuts and turnaround times mysteriously ballooning to 3-6+ months as election season approaches.

People who move or get removed from the voter rolls (often for bogus reasons) will be impacted. It will also take away the ability to register by mail or online.

This is an attack on the freedom to vote.
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