You also have to gather all the paperwork from various places, which could be easy if your parents are responsible, but onerous if not. In many places, there is no public transportation to those or between those places (or it’s not in a timely manner). After that, they still have to get to the place to get the ID. All of this is time and money that particularly the poor and those in under-served communities cannot muster.
Edit: to add, they also need to get time off of work to accomplish this, which they may not be able to afford. This is why I do not really like voter ID laws as they are often proposed.
And it’s not the same challenge everywhere. You may think, “Just go on Wed when they’re open from 8a to 7p. Nobody works that long!” Well, some people do work that long because they go from one job to another and in some counties the ID issuing office is open only a few hours per month!
You also have to gather all the paperwork from various places, which could be easy if your parents are responsible, but onerous if not. In many places, there is no public transportation to those or between those places (or it’s not in a timely manner). After that, they still have to get to the place to get the ID. All of this is time and money that particularly the poor and those in under-served communities cannot muster.
Edit: to add, they also need to get time off of work to accomplish this, which they may not be able to afford. This is why I do not really like voter ID laws as they are often proposed.
And it’s not the same challenge everywhere. You may think, “Just go on Wed when they’re open from 8a to 7p. Nobody works that long!” Well, some people do work that long because they go from one job to another and in some counties the ID issuing office is open only a few hours per month!
I spent quite a bit of time working multiple jobs to survive with basically no time to do anything other than sleep. I can definitely relate to this.