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Apple Introduced Digital ID in Apple Wallet

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64 points meetpateltech | 4 comments | 12 Nov 25 16:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sugarpimpdorsey ◴[12 Nov 25 18:57 UTC] No.45904367[source]▶
Can we use this for voter ID?
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SV_BubbleTime ◴[12 Nov 25 19:05 UTC] No.45904543[source]▶
You have to show ID to vote in my country, I thought that was the normal thing.
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baggy_trough ◴[12 Nov 25 19:09 UTC] No.45904621[source]▶
In the United States, leftists fight as hard as they can for an insecure and unverified voting process.
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1. blackqueeriroh ◴[12 Nov 25 19:57 UTC] No.45905528[source]▶
In the United States, getting an ID is expensive and time-consuming and is often inaccessible to many people, particularly those who don’t speak English, are poor, or work service jobs. These people are the same people who are historically marginalized and oppressed. This is why voter ID laws in the United States are fundamentally anti-democratic and disenfranchising.

If IDs were free and incredibly easy to get, I wouldn’t care about a voter ID law.

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2. atonse ◴[12 Nov 25 20:11 UTC] No.45905782[source]▶
I hear this a lot, can you give me any examples of how these IDs are inaccessible? Can you please give concrete examples of what is asked for that feels onerous, or any specific cases where people aren't able to get IDs?

For example, I know that Maryland DMV will even offer a translator to help you with your driving test. I'm not sure why, because all signs are in English.

I have seen exactly the opposite, that at least in Maryland and bigger states, they go out of their way to make things convenient.

3. dzhiurgis ◴[12 Nov 25 20:44 UTC] No.45906384[source]▶
How do they buy alcohol?
4. 0x457 ◴[12 Nov 25 20:52 UTC] No.45906492[source]▶
> In the United States, getting an ID is expensive and time-consuming and is often inaccessible to many people, particularly those who don’t speak English, are poor, or work service jobs.

No to all of that? Passport book (which you don't need unless you travel internationally) cost 165 USD per 10 years.

Time-consuming...it's a one short trip to local-ish post office (not every post office has passport services). Sure, it's appointment only and only M-F, but you need to do it once every 10 years.

Non-English speakers... You have to pass a basic English test for naturalization, and if you're born here, you probably should speak at least basic English. It's one form as you have to fill out online.

Objectively, it's easier for a service worker to get shit done during the workweek than for 9-5 salaried.

Anyway, California got it right: applied for Real ID? Want to register to vote or update your registration while you're at it? And it cost like $40 (depending on state)

IDs are cheap and easy to get, and I wouldn't want a person who can't figure something that simple to have any voice on the federal level.