<p>The requirements are for all NYS localities, but read the option B:
“Two (2) of the following showing the applicant’s name and address:
Utility or telephone bills
Letter from a government agency dated within the last six (6) months”</p>
<p>A government agency-that means the SSA/Welfare office/State health benefits/State agency for homeless/VA/FEMA, etc, and a cell phone bill.</p>
<p>For an SS card you only need any item of the first list. This is a replacement card so you do not need to prove your citizenship.
Some of the documents are:“Certified copy of a medical record
School identity card, certified record, or transcript (current year)”
Basically to go to a local level where you will personally be known by an individual so they can vouch for you.</p>
<p>There were very significant problems with the voting machines in parts of NYC in the last couple of elections. Disturbingly so. I think the reasons people don’t vote are as varied as the people, themselves.</p>
<p>My polling place is “manned” by elderly black ladies who want to fatten you up. It’s always a great time.</p>
<p>My polling place in the Boston area back in 2000 was not only manned, but also lined with preceding voters who were mostly 60 and up. When the poll workers registered and I completed my voting, they were very friendly and chatted with me for 10 minutes while they took a break during a lull. </p>
<p>In the midst of that chat was a long rant about how far too many folks in the boomer and my generation(Gen X) weren’t exercising their constitutional right to vote…present company excepted. Also, they never requested photo ID back then.</p>
<p>I just wanted to point out that you don’t have to assume ownership of a computer. True … online/internet systems can go down. True … some libraries may not have a working computer … I guess I got lucky - well, not really, I had a flooded home - in that I found a working internet, no problem. If not, I guess I would then have chosen one of the off-line methods.</p>
<p>It should be reassuring to know you can get birth certificates, social security cards, etc., rather than not. Too many people experience natural disasters - in my case, flood, but for others, tornadoes, hurricanes, fire. How awful if those of us who had experienced loss of identification were doomed to never replace it or to have it made so hard to get that we didn’t.</p>
<p>^ My sister took my pocketbook by mistake this morning. Can I still vote?
My driver’s license is suspended. DMV is holding it. Can I still vote?
The DMV is holding my drivers license until I get my eyes checked. Can I still vote?
Town authorities are holding my photo ID until a permit is approved. Can I still vote?
I had to send my old Passport in to get a new one, which hasn’t arrived. Can I still vote?
I have my Canadian driver’s license. Can I vote?
I had this photo ID made up. It’s identical to the original. Can I vote?
Here are Drivers Licenses in my name from ID, CA, NV, CO, MS, MO, IL, KY, AL and IN. Can I vote NOW?</p>
<p>Hayden. My Ancestry membership is currently on hold do i cannot check. this had nothing to do with census data. I thought I saw a notation about my birth , but it could have been moms and my marriage license data. It just gives a date and a State reference number. </p>
<p>My point was that the info is floating around in cyber space.</p>
<p>In other words, you want to effectively raise the voting age to 24 (the financial aid definition of independence) for students?</p>
<p>If you live in a town whose population is mostly that of a college, you should not be surprised if the people associated with the college (students, faculty, staff) want to have a say in how the town runs things, since they will be affected by that.</p>
<p>Gee, I’m a little disappointed that no one rose to the bait in post #108. Sigh.</p>
<p>What I was leading up to was the issue of “reasonable accommodation.” Is the photo ID an absolute requirement? Would there be any reasonable accommodation should a voter not have it on Election Day (for some legitimate reason)? And if that reasonable accommodation would be OK for those without photo ID, why would it not be OK for everyone else?</p>
<p>“I’m sorry Mr. President, but you know the rules … photo ID required.”
“But the Secret Service won’t let me carry documents, for obvious reasons.”
“Sorry, the whole world may know who your are … but I can’t let you vote without a government issued photo ID.”</p>
<p>^^^I did not say to raise the age to 24. College students should get an absentee ballot and vote at their town where their parents live. If they are independent adults and claim residency in my town, then they should vote locally. None of the students voting in local elections care about what is going on at the local schools. how much should be spent on municipal employees benefits, whether our public library should open on Sundays, etc. Why should they vote here when they have no idea what is going on, nor do they ever get involved. Faculty and staff live here and obviously expect them to vote and participate. Students pack and go. They do not care about anything that is happening at the town. They do not have kids in the school system, nor do they pay real estate taxes. Why should students have a say on whether we should pass an over ride to raise our property taxes and municipal employees get a raise, or whether the school system should choose option A or option B?</p>
<p>Would you bar all non-parents-of-school-age-children from voting in local elections because they have no personal reason to care about the local schools?</p>
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<p>Do any other people who live there, including others who may have recently moved there (e.g. newly hired faculty and staff at the college, new graduate students at the college, new employees at local employers including the local government, military personnel on assignment at the local base, etc.) necessarily have any better idea of what is going on? Or should they be disenfranchised until they have lived there for some amount of time?</p>
<p>As far as the property taxes go, those who live off campus indirectly contribute to the property tax receipts by paying rent to the owners of the off campus places that they live in.</p>
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<p>Where they have even less connection due to living there 1/4 of the year instead of 3/4 of the year at their college town.</p>
<p>Voter fraud is not nor has ever been a problem. A much bigger problem is voter suppression, which is one of the reason Voter ID laws have suddenly become all the rage.</p>
<p>Well, let’s just say if I’m not required to produce a valid id to vote then I no longer see the point of making the effort to vote. It is clearly now a complete travesty of justice and legitimacy, it is completely vulnerable, even appealing to the fraudulent elements among us and to try to mask this motive as somehow being patriotic is extraordinarily cynical and ugly. </p>
<p>Yeah! America . . . the land of the free and the land of the meaningless</p>
<p>Same thing in Maine, bethievt. And the volunteers on the book–one from each party–look you up and check you off. We also have paper ballots that are read and counted by an OCR machine. The paper ballots are available to be counted in case of a problem.</p>
<p>All in all, a vastly superior system. And voter turnout in my town is usually well over 80% in fall elections.</p>
<p>But I still think that those of you who want to suppress the vote have the wrong end of the stick. The problem isn’t that the odd non-citizen votes. The problem is that not enough actual citizens vote.</p>