So, you do understand this legislation, because that’s the point.
It makes it notably harder for:
full-time unskilled/low-skilled workers (particularly those that don’t have lenient schedules for non-work obligations that have to happen during working hours, like dealing with City Hall)
people who live far away from where they were born
people with limited transportation options
married women who changed their name (name no longer matches birth certificate)
transfolk whose birth certificate reflects their deadname.
Basically…Democrats. Or at least a hell of a lot more Democrats than Republicans.
It also makes it harder for people who have lost some of these documents.
I went through foster care and in that transition my original birth certificate was lost–I was a minor and had no idea I should look for it, or where it even was, to take it with me. It was hard to bootstrap myself after. Anyone who’s lived through a domestic violence situation might have had to leave home suddenly with very little.
And that’s not considering natural disasters like floods and fires and tornados that might have destroyed paperwork for people too.
So, you do understand this legislation, because that’s the point.
It makes it notably harder for:
full-time unskilled/low-skilled workers (particularly those that don’t have lenient schedules for non-work obligations that have to happen during working hours, like dealing with City Hall)
people who live far away from where they were born
people with limited transportation options
married women who changed their name (name no longer matches birth certificate)
transfolk whose birth certificate reflects their deadname.
Basically…Democrats. Or at least a hell of a lot more Democrats than Republicans.
It also makes it harder for people who have lost some of these documents.
I went through foster care and in that transition my original birth certificate was lost–I was a minor and had no idea I should look for it, or where it even was, to take it with me. It was hard to bootstrap myself after. Anyone who’s lived through a domestic violence situation might have had to leave home suddenly with very little.
And that’s not considering natural disasters like floods and fires and tornados that might have destroyed paperwork for people too.