alt Hacker News> Many people don't have IDs and it is an onerous process to get one.
I have seen this constantly claimed, and never reasonably evidenced. It's also hard to believe the kind of American exceptionalism that supposedly causes these problems that everyone else can easily solve, despite an environment that is clearly heavily politically invested in solving it (because that also avoids the appearance of racism).
Meanwhile, American proponents of voter ID can readily find people including among the supposedly discriminated-against groups who will testify to the contrary.
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Solving it in other countries often involved a standard id that everyone uses for many things, so it becomes a standard party of life. Many people in the US, from what I can tell, don't want that.
Under the text of the proposed SAVE Act, drivers licenses or state ID's wouldn't be enough to count as a voting ID.
In Canada a drivers license is enough to vote.