Reply #8: Minorities and the working poor?

[silverojo]

See my previous post in this thread. People can't work without a SS #, which you can't get without a birth certificate. Last time I checked, poor people of EVERY race were either working lousy jobs (and needed an SS #) or on public assistance (which DEFINITELY needs an SS #).

And...if you're a taxpayer, you've got a SS #. Period.

Virtually everybody without a birth certificate has passed away by now. To cite just one example, even my grandmother, born in poverty in 1904 on a farm outside a small town, had a birth certificate and a SS #. If she were alive right now, she'd be 102.

If you look up individual states' laws about birth certificates, you'll find that the vast majority of them began issuing these documents around 1909-11. So the only people you MIGHT have to worry about are over 95-97 years old!

If you have to show your ID to cash a check, it's only reasonable to expect to show your ID to do something as important as vote.