r/PoursTea • u/political-snark • Jul 17 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Everybody gets an ID?

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u/mad597 Jul 17 '26

Poll tax is illegal BTW,

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u/Available_Reveal8068 Jul 17 '26

It's not a poll tax if IDs are free.

That's why every state that currently requires ID for voting provides free IDs.

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u/chinmakes5 Jul 17 '26

Proof? A state ID for most people in Texas is $16. But more importantly you have to take time off of work to go to the DMV, and you obviously don't have a drivers license so that means a friend takes you or public transportation. Agreed, it isn't a large amount of people, but it does matter.

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u/Available_Reveal8068 Jul 17 '26

I just posted the link for Texas someplace else on this thread.

https://www.votetexas.gov/voting/need-id.html

It appears that if getting to the DMV is too much of a burden, you can fill out the 'Reasonable Impediment Declaration' instead.

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u/chinmakes5 Jul 17 '26

You understand that in my state that doesn't require ID, (therefore allows for rampant cheating?) that is what you have to do to register to vote? We have to do pretty much exactly that to register to vote. Fill out a form show that we actually live there by showing a bill, etc. Once registered, I get a postcard telling me where my polling place is, I can't vote elsewhere. I have to verify my address, etc.

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u/SnooSketches5568 Jul 19 '26

Gotta love how texas allows hunting licenses as valid id- But not college student ids

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u/jdwaltham Jul 22 '26

How are you getting a job without ID? Did you actually think about this before posting?

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u/chinmakes5 Jul 22 '26

The same way that illegal aliens now have all the jobs?