Trump signs executive order requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections
Trump signs executive order requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections
Automatic voter registration when getting or renewing a drivers license or ID card.
Not everybody who has the right to vote needs a driver's license or an ID card.
Everyone who wants a job, house, bank account, doctor, etc. etc. needs at least an ID card.
It's not possible to function in modern society without identification.
I can't tell if you're being deliberately obtuse or you really just can't see beyond your own lived experience. Either way, your worldview is problematic, and you're standing on the side of fascists.
It's super simple:
If you want a job, you have to have ID.
If you want social services, you also have to have ID.
If you bail and are living in the woods like a wildman, good for you, but you aren't voting, and the number of people doing that is not significant.
You don't need an ID for a job. You just need a social security number. Same for social services. And if you want to bail on society and live in the woods, you still have the right to vote. Thinking it's OK to make it harder to vote just because you don't respect the people who will have a harder time is about as anti-american as it gets.
Yes, yes, you do.
It's called an I-9 form.
"On the form, an employee must attest to their employment authorization. The employee must also present their employer with acceptable documents as evidence of identity and employment authorization. The employer must examine these documents to determine whether they reasonably appear to be genuine and relate to the employee, then record the document information on the employee’s Form I-9."
You either need 1 item from list A or 1 item from list B and one from C.
LIST A
Documents that Establish Both Identity
and Employment Authorization
OR - 1 from B and one from C:
LIST B
Documents that Establish Identity
For persons under age 18 who are unable to present a document listed above:
LIST C
Documents that Establish Employment
Authorization
A social security card only shows you're authorized to work in the United States, it's not proof of identity.
In fact, back in the day, it used to say directly on it "Not for Identification."
Did you read it? Read it again, more carefully.
This bit?
"The employee must also present their employer with acceptable documents as evidence of identity"
I've been responsible for PROCESSING I-9 forms, not just filling them out. Yes, you do in fact need ID to get a job.
Keep going and see if you can find the documents you can get without an ID. One of them is particularly relevant to the important point of this discussion.
Documents you can get without a prior ID, these are still ID:
One from column B:
For persons under age 18 who are unable to present a document listed above:
In order to have a life that looks like mine you need ID. I don't see how people without ID do it. I don't they're being deliberately obtuse. Life is hard enough and most of us have a hard time understanding how different other people's lives can be.
Right, but that's exactly my point. It's important to understand that everyone has a right to vote, and not just the people who have a life that looks like yours. And if you're willing to take rights away from people who aren't like you, then you're the oppressor.
