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  • 2xsaiko
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    Why does his drivers license specifically have to match up with his ID to be able to vote? That seems really weird. (Also, could he pretend to just not have one?)

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      His name changed legally, the voter registration didn’t get updated.

      I’m not going to teach my kid to defraud the gov’t.

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        Oh, so he has a new ID but I assume registered to vote before the name change and the registration is tied to the name? Ah yeah that sounds like a pain in the ass.

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          Yeah, exactly. And since we’re vote by mail they would just check the signature but he wouldn’t want to use his dead name and couldn’t remember how to match the signature in any case.