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pfitz59

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12. Many obstacles to obtaining birth certificates.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 30, 2024, 09:44 AM

Dec 30

Cost. Adoption. Home birth. Abandonment. No idea of birth date or birth location (a friend of mine has no idea of when and where she was born, other than 'somewhere in Korea'. She was found near death in an abandoned bunker. A US family adopted her.) Records destruction (fire, flood, earthquake etc).

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Kansas once required voters to prove citizenship. That didn't work out so well [View all] BumRushDaShow Dec 29 OP

I doubt if MAGA cares if more people are disenfranchised. sinkingfeeling Dec 29 #1

Not that I approve of the law but how hard is it to contact Vital Records? underpants Dec 29 #2

Here in PA BumRushDaShow Dec 29 #4

Okay I didn't consider that. underpants Dec 29 #5

I was born on a military base. COL Mustard Dec 29 #9

Thank you. That's what I thought. underpants Dec 29 #10

If it disenfranchised more Democrats than Republicans DBoon Dec 29 #3

KS needs to dump Kobach Clouds Passing Dec 29 #6

No shit. MuseRider Dec 29 #7

You mean a far right-wing policy produced the opposite of the intended result?? mwb970 Dec 29 #8

Republicans seem doomed to learn everything the hard way. KY_EnviroGuy Dec 29 #11

Many obstacles to obtaining birth certificates. pfitz59 Dec 30 #12

Rural red states in particular have a lot of citizens without documentation. Those citizens also tend to be Martin68 Dec 30 #13