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Originally Posted by MrWookie
Adding an hour's bus ride each way on top of the already long time it takes to filter through the DMV makes the trip look a ton less attractive, esp. if the only benefit in it for you is to get to vote.
Considering IDs are good for a decade, I don't think a 2 hour bus ride is asking too much. But given that a vast majority of the people you're talking about here are urban types, I HIGHLY doubt you're going to find a city location that is more than 20-30 minutes away from a DMV service center. The rest of us had to do it. Hell, I'm guessing a lot of cities (I know Milwaukee does) have a free taxi service for the old and impoverished which might even pick them up at their door and take them directly there.
I *GUARANTEE* you that the local political parties would offer such a service if it was needed.
We already drive thousands of people to the polls on election day.
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
And what documentation are you supposed to bring to the DMV if you're an 80-year-old poor southern black person who's lived w/o ID for the last 60 years? I still am waiting for any answer to that. You think it's going to be easy for that person to dig up their birth certificate? Wanna bet the republicans find a way to make that process really tricky and onerous as well? All they have to do is lay the right people off to increase the wait times. Nothing like calling some state office and getting a busy signal all day long.
If this person exists, they would have already been trotted out by the political groups who oppose such legislation. If they truly are out there, I would MORE than happy to bend over backward to help them out.
States keep copies of birth certificates on file, so anyone who doesn't have theirs can get one.
If you don't have the $8 that it will cost for said copy, I'm sure the fee is waived.
Last edited by Inso0; 10-13-2011 at 06:56 PM.