links in alt are not accessible, quite the opposite unfortunately. nothing prevents you from adding a simple “alt text continued” image and continuing the alt on here
Exactly, they know about these hurdles and know that the Republican base will be far less impacted than the Democratic one. It is not a bug, it's a feature!
Oklahoma doesn't recognize birth certificates not printed on safety paper. My 50+ year old birth certificate from Connecticut is not printed on safety paper. I paid $40.00 I did not have for a new birth certificate and when it came it wasn't on safety paper, either. I went 15 years with no ID.
Is the reasoning the same in the US as it was in the UK? That there's flimsy at best evidence of possible voter fraud? So now there *must* be ID in order to vote?
Well this denial was based on state legislation passed in Oklahoma immediately after 9/11. It was later used to deny voting rights. But Red states are notoriously full of voting irregularities, now more than ever. For decades now the poll results and "official" poll results haven't matched up.
Yea, pretty much, bro. It sucks! Thankfully, it’s not everywhere - just in “Red States”, but that’s still pretty limiting considering those are also, generally speaking, the least expensive places to live.
Yeah it's shitty; UK government introduced it here based on what is essentially a non-existent problem. It's also stupidly enforced - e.g. Military ID doesn't count.
Unrelated note: if this were the US, and this happened, there’d be a massive outcry, because “well, isn’t it the conservatives who are supposed to give a damn about the military”? And “what about veterans??” Considering our military budget has surpassed our entire domestic budget recently and all…
There was some outcry about it here - amusingly, a former Prime Minister got turned away at the last local elections for failing to produce a valid form of ID (possibly even the Prime Minister that brought it in, but we've had so many lately I am not 100% sure it was him...)
This is sadly how it is. Voter ID proponents refuse to recognize that it's just another form of poll tax, creating another burden. Government issued ID of ANY form should be good enough, many of the proponents act like they think just undocumented people are voting because it's convenient.
We have Voter ID in Canada but there's so damn many ways to verify ID they allow that it pretty much is pointless. It genuinely only really stops homeless folks with no ID from voting, which is fucked up.
my mom (English speaker, literate with master's degree, job with time off, family to crash with while in the town of her birth 100s of miles from her home) spent a full WEEK of research to track down her birth certificate (hospital no longer exists, Catholic Diocese merged twice).
it's not easy
That just made me realize I don’t know how I would get a birth certificate copy if I didn’t have one. I was born in a natural child birthing center that closed 30+ years ago.
And then there are people from the other parts of the world who look at it and go "why can't they just...", without realizing that USA is in a systemic multi-layer state of fucked and it's not just that one thing.
I’ve got the time and the means but I can’t get an official copy of my birth certificate because they rejected my notarized proof of identity. Each trip to the notary costs time and money, it’s bullshit. (I _can_ vote, I have ID, I just want a copy of my birth certificate.)
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Except it also makes getting an ID a low cost, ~2 weeks process with few steps and simple requirements.
Voter ID isn't the problem, the problem is that the US gov doesn't want people to vote.
it's not easy