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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))3/27/2018 12:27:09 am PDT

re: #236 Anymouse 🌹

It also makes it harder for citizens who are homeless. I was disenfranchised from 1996 to 2007 because I had no legal address (my car didn’t count, and I didn’t have my car after it was destroyed in a tornado). But our Constitution doesn’t say “you must have a home” to vote.

Hence I could not vote for President Obama in 2008, because I had not yet “established” my home in Oklahoma (according to Oklahoma).

I do not know how homeless people in Germany register themselves. But the point is, everyone should have a valid universal and free ID that allows them to vote and access social services.

That alone would greatly alter the administrative landscape and make the US a less attractive destination for undocumented aliens.