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Accepted forms of ID to vote under the SAVE Act:
1. Enhanced REAL ID: Only available in 5 states. Costs up to $50 and requires a birth certificate which 40M Americans lack access to.
2. Valid passport: 146M Americans do not have and costs at least $130. Trump gutted the agencies issuing them.
3. U.S. military ID card presented with military record of service.
4. Government-issued photo ID showing place of birth: 300M Americans do not have one, and costs up to $50.
5. Non-Enhanced REAL ID driver’s license, state ID, or tribal ID shown in conjunction with a birth certificate (40M lack access to) that matches your last name (which 69M women do not have due to marriage) and other forms of documentation.
Ironically, the states the SAVE Act hurts the most: West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
If the SAVE Act was actually a Voter ID bill, then it would propose making the validate forms of ID free and easily accessible, bringing it in line with the 24th Amendment.
Until then, it’s just another Republican voter suppression bill, that makes registering to vote, voting, and ensuring your voting status harder.
What’s happening to white people in Minneapolis is what’s been happening. To Black people in America for decades.
Unarmed, armed, resisting, not resisting, running, not running.
ALL OF IT IS POLICE BRUTALITY.
As someone who grew up in New York during 9/11 — who had family working in the city, and classmates pulled out of class because one of their parents had been killed in the attacks — let me just say this: a big, heartfelt FUCK YOU to anyone who dares exploit that trauma for cheap political attacks in a mayoral race.
Over 100 languages are spoken in our great city and it’s actually a pretty amazing part of being an American.
If you are humiliated by America and the diversity that powers our nation’s Nobel Prizes, Olympic Gold Medals, and breakthrough innovations and culture, that’s on you.