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troubles with voting registration
I spent a lot of Friday getting various forms printed out, hunting through my folders for the documents I'll need, trying (unsuccessfully) to schedule an appointment with either the DMV or the passport office to accept my paperwork. I have a valid state-issued ID, but the state that issued it is NY and apparently that's not good enough to let me vote in NC. My passport would work, but it was lost in the move and expired anyway. I also can't move my voter registration online, which means I either need someone to sign saying I'm who I say I am, or go in person to do the form.
It's all doable, but won't be cheap and will involve taking off work. And it's also completely pointless. Another state already looked at my documents and said I was who I claimed. I've got to provide proof of residency to register anyway, and registering in one state automatically voids my registration in any other state. So requiring me to get a whole new ID is just making it unnecessarily more difficult.
That's what's so hard. Because I'll get through this, I can take time off and afford the costs. But I know each time you make something more difficult there are people who will just give up. And statistically, this really is more likely to impact people who rely on public transit or have other ID's like college ID's or benefit cards. The no out-of-state ID's thing seems targeted at college students in particular.
The fact that it's still this hard just feels unpatriotic, I guess. :-$
It's all doable, but won't be cheap and will involve taking off work. And it's also completely pointless. Another state already looked at my documents and said I was who I claimed. I've got to provide proof of residency to register anyway, and registering in one state automatically voids my registration in any other state. So requiring me to get a whole new ID is just making it unnecessarily more difficult.
That's what's so hard. Because I'll get through this, I can take time off and afford the costs. But I know each time you make something more difficult there are people who will just give up. And statistically, this really is more likely to impact people who rely on public transit or have other ID's like college ID's or benefit cards. The no out-of-state ID's thing seems targeted at college students in particular.
The fact that it's still this hard just feels unpatriotic, I guess. :-$
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And I do feel like I'm letting this bother me a bit too much. It's really mot *too* difficult, it's just a bother I don't see the point of, and somehow that makes me resent it more. If that's enough to complain about it, it does mean I have the luxury of nothing worse going on at least. :-)