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26 million Americans lack valid government-issued IDs, and of this 26m, minority groups comprise the vast majority.

https://bluenotary.us/how-many-american-citizens-don-t-have-...


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phaedrus44111/09/2024

Wow I was surprised by this figure, so I tried to find the source everyone quotes. It appears to be a 2006 telephone survey of 987 randomly-selected voting age citizens that were then weighted for an underrepresentation of race (so perhaps not that accurate). Anecdotally, I work in a safety net hospital and it is really rare for someone to come in without ID, which is why those numbers seemed so surprising to me...

https://www.brennancenter.org/media/6697/download

I could easily have missed a better or more recent study, so if anyone has one please post it!

1propionyl11/10/2024

The answer here is to make getting a government issued ID a straightforward matter and a national priority.

I cannot think of another significant country that hasn't had this figured out for decades.

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