There is extraneous opinion in there, BUT the key is where Walberg says if a person cannot get a $200 passport they cannot vote. It is the SAVE Act, sponsored by several Republicans, that requires a passport to vote. Women would have to provide proof of oorher names. This is insane, and like a poll tax. Even if the passport only costs $35, NO ONE should have to pay to
Ooher=other
A passport is for travelling abroad. It is not for living a normal life in the U.S. I have a passport because my wife’s family is in Canada and my Driver’s License is not RealID. It came in handy even before RealID was a thing because shortly before my father-in-law’s death I received a speeding ticket. The local cop took my license, gave me a piece of paper and said “This is your driver’s license until this is resolved.” (I was going 32 in 15 mph school zone, so special rules applied.) The Passport saved the day for air travel.
While a Passport shows Citizenship, it doesn’t show current address, so folks with passports in Chicago can continue to bus into Wisconsin to mess up elections.
What’s wrong with real ID driver’s licenses? I had to provide a certified BC to get one.costs only slightly more than a regular license the first time and regular renewals after that.
That isn't what that seems. It is positive identification of the voter.
American citizens should be issued passports at birth that should be periodically updated at minimal cost to the citizenry.
I have no desire to fly. I don’t have a Real ID and shouldn’t need one. Why should I pay $200?
I disagree that voting is a right... one should also be a land owner to vote. People who have a vested, material stake in the land mass of the usa and their state. too many NON PROPERTY owners in BIG BLUE ZONES have no material vestment in the land on which they walk, or state in which they live... and they vote accordingly. This is why we are paying for “cutmydickoffofme” spending in the USA and finances to do it all over the friggin planet.
no real estate. NO VOTE.
no foreign nationals should be able to own property here either like it is in many other nations.
If drivers’ licenses and other government issued ID were required to have a special designation to denote citizenship status, that would settle the problem cheaply and it would be something that every adult has or can get at no cost to themselves. If that were required the complaint that Democrat constituencies are too mentally deficient to know how to obtain such ID would have Democrat organizations ostentatiously taking the designated dullards to obtain such.