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[In an attempt to disenfranchise voters] US will start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support, AP learns (apnews.com)

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The revocation program, plans for which were first reported by the AP in February, soon will be greatly expanded to cover parents who owe more than $2,500 in unpaid child support — the threshold set by a little-enforced 1996 law, the State Department said.

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[–] suxen_tsihcrana@anarchist.nexus 3 points 2 months ago

I'm wondering what proportion of people who owe that much even have a passport to begin with. I, too, am scratching my head at the idea of tying these two seemingly disparate things together