Walter Harris, a 94 year old Republican in Ohio, didn’t have his vote counted in the 2024 Presidential Election, because he gave up driving due to age and hadn’t renewed his driver license and Ohio’s voter ID law prohibit using expired IDs for voting.
Alberta Currie was born at home to a midwife in North Carolina 1936 and was never issued a birth certificate, which she needs in order to obtain an ID to allow her vote. North Carolina allows her to obtain one, providing a blood relative attests to being present at the time of her birth. However, her only living sibling is a sister living out of state with advanced dementia, making it impossible to attest to Ms. Currie’s birth.
Samie Louise Bates moved from Illinois to Texas in 2011. The ID she had was an Illinois identification card, which wasn’t sufficient to vote in Texas. She was required to get a copy of her birth certificate from Mississippi, where she was born, for a fee of $42, more than 10% of her monthly income, which she couldn’t afford.
You can acknowledge that voter ID laws are modern poll taxes.