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Re:The cruel Catch-22 of being poor with no ID by maxerickson on Friday June 16, 2017 @07:34PM (#14573328)
Her Social Security card and birth certificate were among the things lost that day.

What reasons are there for the system to be structured such that obtaining an ID is difficult?

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Re:The cruel Catch-22 of being poor with no ID by koolba on Friday June 16, 2017 @07:37PM (#14573342)
Probably to avoid identity theft.
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Re:The cruel Catch-22 of being poor with no ID by maxerickson on Friday June 16, 2017 @07:39PM (#14573364)
That is a reason for making the process rigorous.

It isn't a reason that it should be byzantine or difficult.

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Re:The cruel Catch-22 of being poor with no ID by yellowapple on Saturday June 17, 2017 @02:35AM (#14574602)
Unfortunately, "rigorous" and "byzantine" tend to go hand-in-hand.
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Re:The cruel Catch-22 of being poor with no ID by maxerickson on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:14AM (#14575973)
How do you figure that?
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Re:The cruel Catch-22 of being poor with no ID by justin66 on Friday June 16, 2017 @08:43PM (#14573634)
Identity theft as we know it is a relatively new crime, but these broken ID systems have existed rather longer.
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