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How many people do you know who do not have an ID, a rent receipt, a?

Since the topics related to this question are about Voter ID, then the question is meaningless. Most states, including almost all of the Republican states will not accept a rent receipt, a utility bill, or any document from the government with their name and current address on it. In 2011, Texas passed a law requiring one of the following: Texas state driver's license or ID card, concealed handgun license, U.S. passport, military ID card, or U.S citizenship certificate with a photo in order to vote. At that time the State ID was not free. Experts testified in court that more than 600,000 Texans lacked any of the required identification under the voter ID law, and it was struck down. In 2017,Texas permitted those who did not have one of the approved forms of ID to vote if they signed a statement saying why they did not have the required form of ID. Those votes were placed in provisional balloting and were not counted unless the race was so close that these ballots might make a difference. These ballots would then be investigated through records searches and other means to determine if the person voting actually lived where they said they did. In 2017, North Dakota required voter identification to include a current residential address that could not be a P.O. Box. The US Supreme Court allowed the law to go into effect for the 2018 election, so thousands of Native Americans living on tribal lands had their ballots rejected, because there are no street addresses assigned to those residents. In Wisconsin, over 300,000 people became ineligible to vote because of stricter voter ID laws because they did not have the proper IDs among a very narrow list, which excluded employer ID, utility bills, student IDs and others that had been OK previously. None of the votes previously had been fraudulent or a problem, Republicans just didnt want certain people to vote. 14 states passed stricter voter ID laws in time for the 2016 election, including Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin that removed formerly acceptible IDs like the ones mentioned in the question. There were only 31 credible allegations of voter fraud over a 17-year period between 2000 and 2014, even with more than 1 billion votes cast. So, the changes in Voter ID to make them stricter have nothing to do with fraud and everything to do with targeting poor people, students, elderly and others who have a difficult time traveling to the bureaucratic institutions to get an ID and paying for such transportation and IDs.

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