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https://cdce.umd.edu/sites/cdce.umd.edu/files/pubs/Voter%20I...

Feel free to find other sources too.

Many Americans do not have ID. I don't know why that's so controversial to say.

You don't need an ID to get a job, or rent, or do much of anything. Typically, a bill + address suffices.

You're correct SOME states offer ID that IS NOT a Driver's License. However, there's no reason to get this - why would you? Again, you don't need it for anything so why bother?


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secabeen10/02/2024

Thank you for providing the data to back up my original unsourced claim.

America is a very diverse nation, and people live very different lives across the country. Yet all of them have a right to vote. I would expect that 99+% of people on this site have government-issued IDs, but we in the 1% of technical expertise here.

Listen to the stories of people who were affected by the Hurricane in western North Carolina last week and you can start to understand how different some people's lives are.