• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    22 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?

    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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      16 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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      20 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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      22 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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        8 hours ago

        Lucky! My local DMV doesn’t take people without an appointment, and the only way to make an appointment is online. If you try over the phone they’ll tell you to ask the nice people at the local library to help you.

        Btw, they didn’t tell the library about this policy. As a librarian, I do not like being an extension of the DMV, but I try and help my patrons. Including the dickhead that argued for the defunding of the library but now needs help making an appointment.

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      21 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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        21 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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          19 hours ago

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