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What is it with the USA and their inability to have an ID?
If you mean a "National ID" then Republicans have been against that for reasons of "freedom" and some stupid Bible reference.
If you mean why do Americans have such hard times acquiring an ID? Well, that's by design, because a very powerful minority hate democracy. There's probably millions of people that live over an hour away from the nearest ID issuing office and/or their closest office is open only a few hours a week (yes, per week). There's also plenty of instances of people being unable to sufficiently "prove" they are who they say they are because they don't have their own birth certificate and can't afford to buy it.
We're barely even a Republic anymore and we were probably never a Democracy.
This is more about the type of ID you need mixed with the cost/effort of acquiring that ID.
Essentially, changes to ID laws impact voting by:
At the end of the day, voting should be free and people shouldn't be penalized for how they do it. These kinds of laws try to make voting time intensive and expensive, meaning many people may not be able to vote.
Nothing gives conservative American politicians a bigger hard-on than the idea of a stateless slave workforce.
Apparently enslaved humans and animals you're going to eat have something in common: if you give them a name (ID), then you have to take care of them.
Not all people have ID, but the bigger danger with this one is that it's targeting people whose name doesn't match what's on the official record. And that mostly means recently married women and trans people. Two groups that conservatives don't want voting. As ever, it's not about the IDs.
This attitude is pretty prevalent here for some reason:
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The closest we have to a national ID is a passport. However, there are new ID requirements for something called a Real ID. It's basically an enhanced driver's license / state ID that complies with federal standards. When I got mine last year, I don't think the process was any different from renewing my old-style driver's license. The only noticeable difference is they gave me a black and white printout temporary ID to use for the two weeks it took to receive the ID card in the mail.
The weirdest thing about it, though, is that it looks crappier and cheaper than the old "insecure" driver's license I had before.
My question to the rest of the world: Are y'all this obsessed with birth certificates? I feel like it's ridiculous here.
The US has no free, standardized, national ID card.
Each individual state does it on their own. They all have their own rules and levels of verification.
Recently there is a national standard created. If the state ID meets that standard it has a gold star emblem in one corner. I believe part of that standard is proof of citizenship. But I'm not sure all state ID yet meet that standard, compliance has been pushed back several times; Mostly by conservative states. I think we can now see the real reason for that, instead of the commonly stated "government over reach".
Many do. Others don't. It's not required for living generally, and it isn't needed to validate a vote. This is an invented problem to try and control who can vote. One party has to do that to survive, and they're very good at minimizing turnout of people who might vote against them. As you can see.