Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by cjslep on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:31PM
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You have to make that ID national, free, and easily obtained with very little to no wait time. Otherwise, it's going to disenfranchise those without time and/or money.
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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by anticensor on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:58PM
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US Passport Card has all the features you want except for the "free"-ness thing.
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by cjslep on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:18PM
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...and except for the fact that the US Passport Card itself (DS-11) requires another ID card, so the same exact problems arise.
And those IDs usually require proof of residency and/or a copy of a US birth certificate, which can be problematic to acquire or prove in their own ways for the more vulnerable to disenfranchisement (such as the homeless) in our society.
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by anticensor on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:19AM
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Legislature may overcome that hurdle by amending the Passport Act, making the Passport Card free and internationally valid federal ID document on its own. And do not say that Birth Certificate is too costly.