Texas ID requirement

[Proud liberal 80]

Just like in a lot of Republican ran states, you need to have a ID in order to vote. Even though I knew republicans were using these tactics to suppress the vote and in particular minorities, At first, my suburban privilege self use to think “it’s not that hard to get an ID”....But when I had to get a drivers license and then looked at the residency requirements, I realized that a lot of people may not have the required documents to prove their residency....For example, I can see an adult who isn’t going to school and may not have a job and living with family not having them.... this is straight crap!

https://www.dps.texas.gov/DriverLicense/residencyReqNonCDL.htm

[Gothmog]

1. There was a lawsuit that largely gutted the Texas voter suppression/voter id law

The state party's outside counsel took a case to treail in 2014 and got a judgment that was affirmed by the very conservative 5th Circuit that largerly gutted this law. Now you can vote if you don to ahve one of the ids if you sign a reasonable impediement declaration ando one of the reasons for a reasonable impediment is any difficulty in getting a required ID

[Skittles]

2. look up how many counties in Texas don't have a DMV office

I think it is....81

[JCMach1]

3. And then I double dog dare you to go to one!

It's a nightmare

[Skittles]

8. oh don't even get me started

TOO LATE

in late March I took a VACATION from work just to hit up the DMV, that kind of stuff is hard to do when you work 12 hour night shifts!

[Boogiemack]

9. Well, as soon as we turn all those state and local legislatures and councils blue...this will end.

[Sherman A1]

4. I dealt with this nonsense in Missouri

Years ago. In order to get my drivers license renewed I needed a birth certificate. The one I had was the photostat of the original from the hospital. It is what they gave the parents here in the era of us dinosaurs.

This wasn’t acceptable to the DMV as even though it was obviously correct, it didn’t have the seal of the health department on it.

I then was directed to the county health department to get the correct version of the birth certificate and the ID I needed for that process was my drivers license which was about to expire and would not be renewed without the birth certificate I was seeking from the health department.

I got all the documents needed after paying $15.00 and walked out of the office shaking my head at the circular logic in the whole fiasco.

[Mariana]

7. Yeah, they insist on a certified copy of the vital record now.

Although I think I just used my passport - but of course I needed a certified copy of my birth record to get that.

Back in 1992, in Texas, I got married and went to get my name changed on my driver's license. I brought my documentation, but it turned out I didn't need it. They just took my word for it that I got married and that my new last name was _____.

[Le Roi de Pot]

5. The federal government should give everyone a national ID card with biometrics

And use the post office as a service center

[UTUSN]

6. Careful, some board nannies and gatekeepers might school you

about how it's no big deal, how "ironic" complaining about this is because other states and countries require ID(s) for everything, and how dare you have an opinion.