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Originally Posted by Kevin
I don't understand what the big deal is here. In Oklahoma, your voter registration card works in lieu of a photo ID. If you don't have one of those, you never registered to vote or you lost it. Either way, your bad.
As far as Texas goes, $16 to get a state ID card, even if you don't drive or $5 if you're >60 is no big deal. You should have an ID anyhow for a variety of reasons.
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It's still effectively a poll tax - it's not so much that the amount itself is overly burdensome, but it does create awkward precedent.
Unrelated to your point, but more for the folks upstream ... comparing voting to driving or buying liquor is somewhere between silly and insane.
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