Trump’s executive order on voting rights. I may be misinterpreting this (correct me please if I am), but it sure sounds like you won’t be allowed to vote if you didn’t opt for a “RealID” version of your license. A regular driver’s license contains no information regarding citizenship status, at least in my state, so it wouldn’t count. A lot of low income people in rural America have skipped getting a “RealID” because it’s more expensive. If this order goes thru, that decision may cost them their right to vote. This could disenfranchise millions of low income voters.
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Not the easiest nor cheapest to obtain. Also, only like 1/4 US citizens have a passport last I checked.
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It seems like it’s either $130 or $165 (130 + 35) for a first time applicant according to the web. Keep in mind that many US households couldn’t bear a sudden $400 expense and this is even worse amongst the working poor.
That imposes a de facto poll tax. If the courts weren’t corrupt, they’d immediately shut that down as unconstitutional.
Basically, it seems that way since, afaik, no free ID is a available that meets the requirements.
Even if it were free, getting it would still definitely be harder for the disadvantaged, but I have no idea how the courts might see that in isolation.
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It’s not a lifetime doc, it needs to get replaced every 10 years.
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Burgers are like $15 now
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How much vote tax is acceptable? You say $200 every 10 years is fine. Would $1000 every ten years also be fine? $10,000? Where’s the limit?
According to about a century of court descisions, no poll tax is constitutional as a voting requirement.
And yet one is being introduced - almost like precedence doesn’t matter anymore.
It is a once-per-10-years spend. The renewal fee is the same. I’m not sure about RealID-complient ID prices since that all happened after I left the US.
Americans having access to healthful food and time to cook when working two jobs is a whole other thing (this disproportionally impacts people of lower income). Also, as I mentioned in another reply, trying to get all of the documents together to do this and the time and transportation to do it (remember: public transit is absolute shit, if even available, in a lot of the US) is a whole other problem.
I’m not saying it won’t affect anyone but a real id takes like $30 and about 20 minutes.
Hahaha no. Last time I went to the DMV for anything (CA), I had an “appointment” and it still took two hours waiting in line.
Only a minority of Americans have passports, overwhelmingly the wealthy.
And this administration has been finding excuses to not provide passports to certain classes of people, like trans people.