A Federal Photo ID Act

[procon]

12. Republicans are trying the close the US Postal Service,

and privatize it. Do you really want either the Republican Party or their corporate overlords to manage a national ID system and control everyone's only access to voting?

I live in a rural area. There is no PO here, and actually most rural areas don't have that convenience. I would have to travel almost 20 miles to the closest PO, and for friends who live farther out, it's almost 150 miles round trip. Even so, obtaining all the supporting documents from various counties or state agencies to prove my identity would be a hardship, time consuming and costly. Women especially, might change their surnames names several times during their lives. They would need to acquire a paper trail of legal name changes for any marriages, divorces, deaths, and that too, is expensive.

You might want to check, but the Voting Rights Act does not require a photo ID to vote; here in California, as well as states, no ID is needed to vote.