Re:DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targe...
by jakeogh on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:05AM
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Thanks. In AZ, when you are issued an ID, it's good until you are 65. We also have provisional ballots.
So I looked up AL: https://www.dmv.org/al-alabama/id-cards.php (and got SEO'd)
4 years. And it's expensive. Bad. Seems like it's a reason for federal innovation at least on the fee and access side. ID's are difficult to copy, I haven't heard an arg to make them expire in such a short window.
That said, I would rather fix that problem than not have voter ID, some courts appear to agree it's a problem as you mentioned and have rightly intervened.
If you search for “voter ID DMV closure” or “voter ID vote suppression” you’ll find plenty more examples. Another tactic is to tailor the set of acceptable forms of ID to favor certain groups. A court ruled that North Carolina recently did this to target minorities “with almost surgical precision.”