It certainly had that feel to it, only without the option to bribe one’s way out of it. I left wondering exactly what the agenda was- now I think I know.
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Pretty sure you don’t need a drivers license or non-driver ID for:
Apply For a Job, To File For Unemployment, Social Security, To Rent a Home or Apartment, To Ride On An Airplane, To Get Married, To Check Into a Hotel, To Adopt a Pet, To Pick Up a Narcotic Prescription, To Buy Certain Cold Medicines, To Donate Blood, To Buy Lottery Tickets (some places), To Buy a Video Game Rated M, To See a Movie Rated NC-17.
The programs for Food Stamps, Section 8 Housing, issue their own ID cards which surprise, surprise isn’t valid at the polls in places with voter ID laws.
Also most of those activities are not usually ones done by the elderly. People of a certain age, may not be able obtain birth certificates needed for a drivers license or non-driver ID.
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You work in some capacity in which actual cases of convicted voter fraud in Chicago during the most recent election were shown to you?
Some specifics would be lovely. Considering the fact that the media has been quite happy to broadcast all sorts of problems in Chicago, it seems a little odd that an issue like this would have been relegated to the back pages somewhere.
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Funny: they don’t have to do that to exercise their 2nd Amendment Constitutional rights.
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You are operating from a position of privilege. You think these are normal things that everyone does in their lives. Poor people living in poor neighborhoods often don’t have banking accounts or credit cards, and flying on an airplane is entirely out of reach. In that situation, you don’t usually get a check needing to be cashed, and if you do, you sign it over to someone else.
It costs time, energy and money to get a copy of your birth certificate. And when you’re talking about the elderly poor in rural areas, their birth certificates often don’t fulfill the requirements properly because they were not born in a hospital, the paperwork wasn’t filed until long after their birth, etc. And those same people often don’t have school records either, because they left to work after 6th or 8th grade, or the records were lost/destroyed (usually along with the school). Copies of utility bills or bank statements to prove your address don’t work if you don’t have an account (maybe it’s your son-in-law’s name on the gas bill, for example).
It’s an enervating process, and a dehumanizing one. Every moment spent trying to prove you are who your family knows you to be is done with the knowledge that you don’t really count as a full citizen because you don’t have the right paperwork.
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Voting is a much more fundamental element of a democracy.
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We’re cool! We’re cool!
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Fully fourteen of the things you listed (plus “Medicaid Mortgages,” whatever those are) do not legally require a government-issued photo ID. Whether through ignorance or malice, you are repeating lies.
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Why not both?
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