When you use credit cards or even debit cards, you MAY be asked to show ID. If you rent a car, enter a nightclub, buy alcohol, and all the other times you mention.
The elderly that had no ID are now gone. My parents are now in the elder generation. They and their age mates all have ID. Even the minorities. Maybe the illegal alien abuelitas don’t have ID. Then don’t [expletive] vote.
There is NO good reason to be against voter ID. No other country allows this. I went to my polling place last year and apparently I had already voted. I had to vote a provisional ballot. I was mad. Whoever voted in my name - THEIR vote counted, but my provisional probably didn’t.
My prior address / voting place had a woman up the street with a name that sounded like mine but spelled differently. Our first names were identical. The older women looking through those huge paper address lists would always stumble over this. “Don’t you live at [other address]?” “No, that is the other [name]; she spells her name with a G.” Soooo difficult. Having the person’s ID would cut down those clerical errors as well.
Exactly...My MIL is 91 and hasn’t driven a car for close to 15 years, she uses a walker to get around but she has a photo ID. She wouldn’t have it any other way and no elderly person should be without one.