It disenfranchises many voters. I know several people who don’t have valid IDs. I was almost unable to to vote last November because my ID expired, and all my local DMVs were booked for many months. Had to set an appointment 3 months in the future at a DMV 50 miles away from me to get an ID just before the election.
In many cases you can renew an ID online or by mail; if you can’t, there’s always the option to just show up at the DMV, you don’t have to have an appointment.
Your solution is to just spend an entire day at the DMV and hope you get seen so you don’t have to do it again the next day? In what world does that sound reasonable?
As someone who lived in countries where it’s actually difficult to get administrative tasks done, dropping into the DMV on a whim is not difficult by any measure.
I do care because it seems you choose to do tasks the hard way when there are actually easier routes to accomplish the same thing?
Again this isn’t about me or the car registration process, it’s about the difficulty of simply walking into the DMV when an appointment is unreasonably far away. What I might’ve done differently in my circumstance has no bearing.
It disenfranchises many voters. I know several people who don’t have valid IDs. I was almost unable to to vote last November because my ID expired, and all my local DMVs were booked for many months. Had to set an appointment 3 months in the future at a DMV 50 miles away from me to get an ID just before the election.
I still can’t get my California ID because of how much the DMV is giving me the runaround. At this point, I just keep my WA ID and said fuck it.
In many cases you can renew an ID online or by mail; if you can’t, there’s always the option to just show up at the DMV, you don’t have to have an appointment.
The DMV (or secretary of state offices) I know won’t see you without an appointment.
And if you don’t have a home address then you don’t deserve to vote?
Remember when we decided to not let just land owners vote?
You deserve to vote despite not having a home address.
And voter ID laws make it so they cannot.
Your solution is to just spend an entire day at the DMV and hope you get seen so you don’t have to do it again the next day? In what world does that sound reasonable?
Most of the world actually.
Well I don’t have time in my life to spend an entire day at the DMV. And I don’t find that to be a reasonable expectation. So, not here.
I’ve had to pay late registration penalties due my vehicles before under the same circumstances. Walk in, 150 people in line, walk out.
Why don’t you renew your vehicle registration online or by mail?
I don’t have a fucking vehicle, does that mean I shouldn’t be able to vote?
What does that have to do with the conversation?
How does one register their vehicle at the DMV if they do not have one?
Why do you care? The story is about how difficult it is to just drop into the DMV on a whim.
As someone who lived in countries where it’s actually difficult to get administrative tasks done, dropping into the DMV on a whim is not difficult by any measure.
I do care because it seems you choose to do tasks the hard way when there are actually easier routes to accomplish the same thing?
Again this isn’t about me or the car registration process, it’s about the difficulty of simply walking into the DMV when an appointment is unreasonably far away. What I might’ve done differently in my circumstance has no bearing.