You know, I've heard that line about "adults need to show their ID's every day" BS I'm getting damned sick of it.
In the last 5 years, I've had to show my ID 4 times....twice to open checking accounts, twice for house purchases.
Other than that, not once, but then again, I'd never buy Nyquil or Dayquil (and I honestly don't understand why anyone does, but that's another matter.)
And I also realize you have little to no concept of rural living or the inhabitants of rural areas, being that you're a city boy.
Here's a scenario playing out next door to us. 78 y.o. black retired woman, needs ID to vote. She quit driving almost 2 decades ago and her driver's license has long ago expired. She wanted to vote this election and here's the hoops she had to try to jump through.
To obtain a new ID, she's got to travel about 1 hr. of driving, one way. (It's about 45 miles to Athens, all back road...took us an hour when we made the trek.) She also has to have birth certificate, marriage certificate (have to have chain of proof for name changes),original SS card or a "real" replacement (how the DMV authenticates the replacement SS card is "real" is beyond me, but that's what they say), and two pieces of mail addressed to her, proving residence.
Well, she had the mail...property tax bill and utility bill. But here's where it fell apart for her. She wasn't born in a hospital as was the case for many blacks in the late 1930's. So tracking down her birth cert. was difficult and almost unobtainable because, suprise, surprise, they wanted a state ID to get a copy...Catch 22.
Then she couldn't locate her marriage cert., which she couldn't find. Not surprising, given it was issued over 54 years ago and she'd moved a couple of times since. (Her record keeping, while decent, isn't perfect.) And to add insult to injury, she was married in Columbia, SC and she's a GA resident.
Now, between her daughter, who took a day off from work to dedicate getting the marriage cert., which failed, and me driving her to ATL to obtain her birth cert. (since she didn't have state issued ID, she couldn't order the stuff online like they want you to do, instead she had to physically appear at each place and hope her preponderance of the evidence would satisfy that particular institution's requirements.)
Getting the marriage cert. failed because SC required her to present a state ID, but she cannot get a GA state issued ID because she cannot establish the name change trail. Catch 22 again.
But, yeah......it's so easy for everyone.
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