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by hedora 94 days ago
The federal government is trying to create problems. For instance, a Real ID won't be good enough to vote this fall if SAVE passes:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/18/byron-dona...

There are also a bunch of other gotchas: Original birth certificates and all currently-issued military IDs are not acceptable, for instance (even though the bill lists birth certificates and military IDs as acceptable, there are carve-outs to ban the common cases).

Good luck getting a passport between now and then.
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rickydroll 94 days ago
> The federal government is trying to create problems.

All of the voter ID requirements in the SAVE Act are conservative wet dreams To deny undesirable populations the right to vote. see: https://fairelectionscenter.org/advocacy/save-act-2025/

Wikipedia has a great list of current and past methods of voter suppression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...

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hattmall 94 days ago
To be clear, it's not required to vote. It's required for a new registration to vote. Which is typically done when you get a new ID, which already requires having those documents, more even because you have to show proof of current residence.
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mothballed 94 days ago
In my state you can only get an ID mailed, and it has to be mailed to your primary residence. Except the mail doesn't go to many primary residences. The USPS straight up refuses to mine and gets real nasty if you ask them to, as they ask for made up paperwork requirements (certificate of occupancy) that isn't even issued for some houses in my county (this paper only needed if you want to follow certain increased scrutiny building options and plan on getting a mortgage, in my case there is no legal way for me to get one). Now if you're actually homeless you can use a shelter as a legal residence for your ID, but if you have a real legal residence USPS refuses to then you are shit out of luck.

A couple decades ago they used to print the ID then and there, IDs were far more accessible back then. For some god forsaken reason they stopped that most everywhere.

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5upplied_demand 94 days ago
So there is no problem to solve?
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otterley 94 days ago
What do you think the problem to solve is? Please use quantitative data in your answer.
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5upplied_demand 93 days ago
I don't think there is any problem to solve, that was my point. It is already illegal to vote as a non-citizen.
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