My state is similar to yours, dmv hours are same state wide and location wise they are not totally out of the way.
Same documents, birth cert, social card, 2 proofs of address.
Those requirements, while easy enough and even doable for the homeless, are harder for some than others, specifically the poor.
Those people who used shelter addresses didn’t have to pay (thats national, first time and renewals are free to homeless.) Someone who is poor but not homeless has to pay. Also poor people often leave their parents home without their social and birth cert. Or have no where to safely store them and lose or have them stolen. Also, social security cards are not assigned to you at birth. If mom or dad never filed for one for you, congrats you get to do it as a adult. This can create a whole catch 22 style loop of them getting fucked.
Anyways, I’m not explaining myself well, but yes requiring state ID (non drivers license) to vote is prohibitive to a lot of otherwise entitled voters.
I am “the poor.” Less so now, but still not “not,” lol.
As far as the documents go, yeah, you need some, and can likely get them if they’ve been lost. The alternative is me claiming to be Elon Musk, getting an ID in his name, whole ass stealing his identity to fund my life (which while that sounds funny to me is a crime lol.) Really without some proof of identity there’s no point to even have IDs at all.
State IDs are also required for another right, the right to bear arms. You can’t buy a gun in the US without an ID, and buying a gun being a right much like the right to vote, if it’s prohibitively hard to get an ID for one right so too must it be for all rights. Frankly you can kill more people with a vote, too.
My state is similar to yours, dmv hours are same state wide and location wise they are not totally out of the way.
Same documents, birth cert, social card, 2 proofs of address.
Those requirements, while easy enough and even doable for the homeless, are harder for some than others, specifically the poor.
Those people who used shelter addresses didn’t have to pay (thats national, first time and renewals are free to homeless.) Someone who is poor but not homeless has to pay. Also poor people often leave their parents home without their social and birth cert. Or have no where to safely store them and lose or have them stolen. Also, social security cards are not assigned to you at birth. If mom or dad never filed for one for you, congrats you get to do it as a adult. This can create a whole catch 22 style loop of them getting fucked.
Anyways, I’m not explaining myself well, but yes requiring state ID (non drivers license) to vote is prohibitive to a lot of otherwise entitled voters.
I am “the poor.” Less so now, but still not “not,” lol.
As far as the documents go, yeah, you need some, and can likely get them if they’ve been lost. The alternative is me claiming to be Elon Musk, getting an ID in his name, whole ass stealing his identity to fund my life (which while that sounds funny to me is a crime lol.) Really without some proof of identity there’s no point to even have IDs at all.
State IDs are also required for another right, the right to bear arms. You can’t buy a gun in the US without an ID, and buying a gun being a right much like the right to vote, if it’s prohibitively hard to get an ID for one right so too must it be for all rights. Frankly you can kill more people with a vote, too.