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Originally Posted by leftparadise
do you know what it costs to get an official copy of your birth certificate (in order to get the "free" state id) ? figured for inflation its more than the poll taxes the south used to use to prevent blacks from voting 100 years ago. that's progress for you.
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Well they give them out free to everyone when they are born. And if you lose it, like I did once, it was something like 10 bucks. But regardless, people need ID to get a job or to apply for government assistance.
Also, people can vote by mail. There wouldn't be any ID required then. And before people say the poor can't afford a stamp I've said before that absentee ballots should be free of charge to mail.