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In reply to the discussion: 69 year old black woman in Virginia brought 4 forms of ID to polls & still couldn't vote [View all]mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Banking generally needs your bank card, not ID. It's not routine to go into a bank anymore. Also if you bank with a certain small bank or credit union and you go in regularly then the staff get to know you and that dispenses with that ID requirement. Bank rules mean that you must "know your customer" not "demand your customers whip out ID cards every time for every transaction".
Renting a hotel room... the hotel would have accepted her NC driver's license, but then there are hotels who don't go over that ID thing really carefully anyway.
Renting cars and buying airplane tickets are routine for very frequent travelers only. Plus these people are more likely to have an up to date passport too. I'm going to bet that the last time she flew or rented a car was probably in the 20th century. I could be wrong.
As a permanent resident, I carry ID at all times... if one reads the fine print of the law I could be charged with a misdemeanor for not being able to produce on demand my permanent resident card to a lae enforcement officer. The number of times I have had to whip out my ID this year? Zero.
As for supporting voter ID laws... I think that voter registration, not voting itself has holes in it that need closing. Virginia's voter ID law is tougher than North Carolina's - which now has voter ID requirements. In NC she could have signed an affidavit and voted.