• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    If a citizen loses their passport or birth certificate, should they be disenfranchised?

    No. What a weird question. You go get another one at the DMV. It’ll take you a half-hour.

    Why the drama over a lost card?

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      4 hours ago

      Neither of those can be acquired at the DMV. It actually takes a long time to get a passport because they have to do a lot of checks. In certain cases you can pay to speed up the process but I doubt that’d be possible if people needed it to vote. Too many people in too short a window.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      I don’t live in bumpfuck nowhere, I live just outside a major metropolitan city. My wife had to wait 3 months to get her DL renewed and she had to drive over an hour to get to the office, IN A DIFFERENT FUCKING CITY!

    • smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Have you ever been to the DMV? If you show up without an appointment they tell you to come back at 4am to form a line.

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      10 hours ago

      Um. My son is getting his learner’s permit, we had to make an appointment at DMV, and the waitlist was 3 weeks. So, you sure about that?

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        10 hours ago

        When I moved to a new state, I went to the DMV without an appointment. I was there for over 5 hours and then it took nearly 3 months for my new license to arrive in the mail. When it did, they got my birthday wrong.

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          7 hours ago

          My old roommate waited 3 weeks to get a drivers license, and they spelled his name wrong on it.