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Re:Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You) by VLM on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:35AM (#18390811)
"And states will purposefully make it harder to get an ID"

You're in charge of your state; keep it in line, don't be a victim.

Mine has been forced to give out free state ID cards. Not nominal fee, but $0 cost. You don't need any money to get the required docs to get a non federal real ID card. Real ID compatible cards are also free if you have the docs, but if you don't have the docs you can't live in legal society anyway.

My MiL and UiL are both too old/frail to drive (I'm older than some HN posters) and they have free state ID cards, so I am very recently extremely familiar with this situation.

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Re:Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You) by cm2012 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:24PM (#18394119)
First, I completely agree that ID cards should be free and easy to get. But it's not quite true that the victims here are in charge of their states. Voting rights rules almost always target minority populations, which by definition are not in charge of the state. The USA should protect people not in the majority as well.
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