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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Steve203 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: NeoCons, "Israel!" and Republicans
Date: 03/29/26 11:19 AM
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I have ID.

What sort of ID? Passports and passport cards are proof of citizenship, but they are not free. Something like half of USians do not have a passport or passport card. I am one of them.

When I upgraded my Michigan driver's license to a "Real ID" license, which is still not proof of citizenship, I mosied down to the Secretary of State office, with the birth certificate I have had all my life, to prove my identity. The clerk looked at the certificate, sneered, and said it was a "souvenir from the hospital". I had to go to the County Clerk, which is where birth records are kept in Michigan, to obtain an official, certified, birth certificate. The certificate was not free.

My driver's license expires this year. I intend to upgrade to the "Enhanced" license, which *is* proof of citizenship, that I can conveniently carry. The "Enhanced" license is not free.

Banning mail in voting also exerts a burden on voters. In some areas of the country 60-70% of people mail their ballots in. Banning mail in ballots, especially on such short notice, will result in huge lines at the polls, because local clerk's offices will not have time to increase the number of voting machines to handle the extra volume. Even where I live, where each polling place has a couple dozen stations for filling out ballots, before they are fed into a tabulator, the speed that the polling place volunteers can process each voter, is limited. Doubling the number of people voting, without doubling the number of polling place workers, will result in huge lines. And clerk's offices are having a hard time getting enough people to volunteer to work at a polling place. When I worked at a polling place, several years ago, there were 6 people working per precinct. The last time I voted, there were 3 or 4 per precinct.

The SAVE act will ration voting by ability to pay, and ability to stand in line, for hours, regardless of a person's physical or transportation limitations.

Again, if the most corrupt POTUS in the history of the republic wants it, can we assume his motives are corrupt?

Steve
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