Reply #7: There's no way a person can get through life without such ID

[silverojo]

You can't get a Social Security number without a birth certificate.

You can't work without a SS #. Therefore, you can't work without a birth certificate.

If you can't work, then you're on welfare, Social Security, or disability. You can't get ANY of these without a SS # AND a birth certificate.

Even if you were married, and inherited your husband's/wife's money when he/she died, you needed a SS # (which, again, required a birth certificate) to identify yourself.

Just because a state didn't ISSUE birth certificates, they're kept on record. A law passed in 1931 required the time of birth be put on birth certificates, as well. If someone was too lazy to contact their state of birth to GET a copy of their birth certificate (which is not expensive), that's a problem of their own invention.

People alive today who don't GENUINELY have birth certificates are 100 years old or more. Not that many people aged 100+ exist, and of those who do, the majority have health problems that preclude them from voting, anyway (stroke, dementia, Alzheimer's, etc., which affect one's capacity for reasoning). So the people affected by this bill would be those over 100 years old who are of sound mind--a very small number, indeed.

In the past 50 years, there were ample opportunities for people to straighten up problems with birth certificates.

If we Democrats are truly concerned about voting fraud, then demanding ID to be shown at the polls is one very important step in the right direction.

That's not "unconstitutional". Voting fraud is unconstitutional.