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i remember reading that even those are highly inaccessible to minorities, in areas with large minority populations the offices are farther away/have weird hours/other obstacles that make them harder to acquire
I mean, they all keep the same hours in my state and it seems like more of them are actually in the bad areas (where I happen to live myself, lol) rather than making the "rich neighborhoods look bad" with all the DMV offices. I can't speak for the entire country, but you'd think my area would be one of the worst with it if it were actually about stopping "the blacks" from acquiring them (US, South.) Also every single minority I know (which is actually a fair number, my area is diverse af,) has an ID and/or driver's license, so they definitely can get them.
Hell I know one dude, trans, half black, dad left as a kid because he was a crackhead, grew up poor with me, current heroin addict (hope he gets better before he dies like many of our other friends,) and he still has an ID. I think it may deadname him still, but he has one. I've actually never even met a single person over the age of 18 without one afaik, hell I know 4 homeless dudes and they have them. One lives in a tent and the other three just have sleeping bags under a bridge and they figured it out. I mean the address is a local shelter that lets them use the address specifically for this, but they do have one.
Tbh I think the whole "the blacks can't get IDs" thing is not only overstated, but also kinda racist, like how saying "we have to take care of women because they can't take care of themselves" is technically "nice" or whatever because they have good intentions but it's actually misogynistic af.
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/aclu_voter_id_fact_sheet_-_final_1.pdf
here we go I'm pretty sure this or a related summary is what I'd seen before, it wasn't a recent read so i might be wrong but it sounds familiar
My state is similar to yours, dmv hours are same state wide and location wise they are not totally out of the way.
Same documents, birth cert, social card, 2 proofs of address.
Those requirements, while easy enough and even doable for the homeless, are harder for some than others, specifically the poor.
Those people who used shelter addresses didn't have to pay (thats national, first time and renewals are free to homeless.) Someone who is poor but not homeless has to pay. Also poor people often leave their parents home without their social and birth cert. Or have no where to safely store them and lose or have them stolen. Also, social security cards are not assigned to you at birth. If mom or dad never filed for one for you, congrats you get to do it as a adult. This can create a whole catch 22 style loop of them getting fucked.
Anyways, I'm not explaining myself well, but yes requiring state ID (non drivers license) to vote is prohibitive to a lot of otherwise entitled voters.
I am "the poor." Less so now, but still not "not," lol.
As far as the documents go, yeah, you need some, and can likely get them if they've been lost. The alternative is me claiming to be Elon Musk, getting an ID in his name, whole ass stealing his identity to fund my life (which while that sounds funny to me is a crime lol.) Really without some proof of identity there's no point to even have IDs at all.
State IDs are also required for another right, the right to bear arms. You can't buy a gun in the US without an ID, and buying a gun being a right much like the right to vote, if it's prohibitively hard to get an ID for one right so too must it be for all rights. Frankly you can kill more people with a vote, too.