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Jensson04/03/20253 repliesview on HN

> Domestically most people rely on drivers licence as their ID

So show your drivers license at the voting booth? Why is that unacceptable?


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mjamesaustin04/03/2025

Any form of ID held by the average voter will be unacceptable to the GOP, because it won't limit voting access from the people they don't want voting.

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orwin04/03/2025

I don't think a driver license is a valid voting id in the US, because you don't have to be a citizen to get one.

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ryan_lane04/03/2025

Not everyone has drivers licenses, especially poorer folks, especially minorities. The requirements for drivers IDs are now to get RealIDs and some of these folks don't have access to things like birth certificates and other requirements of getting a RealID.

There's also additional requirements of your gender matching your ID (which eliminates many transgender folks), your name matching on all documents (good luck if you're a married woman), etc.

Folks are rightly pointing out that these laws are engineered to suppress votes, and you seem to not be willing to listen to understand why.

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