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we went through this mess in 2012/2013 and one of the big issues was that there were many older residents who moved here to PA coming from rural southern states where they had been born at home (with some only marking the birth in a bible or a church record or not at all). So there were no state-issued "official" birth records (birth certificates) for those individuals.

There was a big case here in PA - Applewhite, et al. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. that eventually killed the Voter ID law here because of the issue of getting birth certificates, among other things, including what was acceptable as "proof". And this wasn't even related to "citizenship" but the same issue of a lack of birth certificate would apply.