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“People know how to get ID” was basically Kansas’s argument.
Courts didn’t buy it when tens of thousands were blocked.
The question isn’t embarrassment. It's statutory conflict and burden.
Interesting considering the rest of the US has been moving towards it and well what one state flags it... You do know that if that were practical then rural America would be the ones who are most disenfranchised. Urban America has a lot better access to the DMV... Its highly likely that they found the rural American part the issue not the urban.
- Rural American who moved to Washington DC and now has DMV's within 10 minutes instead of 45 minutes to an hour plus.
DMV access can be worse in rural areas, so geography can matter. But Kansas’s failure mode wasn’t “rural vs urban”. It was that a proof-of-citizenship gate blocked ~31,000 eligible registrations.
Having to present your Drivers Licenses aka "Real ID" is pretty low standards. Europe has much stricter rules and to think that this discriminates against minorities flies in the face of the truth. People know how to get ID's and Drivers Licenses so to suddenly present that they have no clue is embarrassing and why we have seen people in the streets being appalled that their elected leaders thing so little of them.