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🧵 Do Americans know what they’re getting with Trump’s crusade to require proof of citizenship to vote? It’s not as simple as showing a photo ID. Here’s what you need to know👇

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Certified Birth Certificate, marriage license, divorce paperwork (name change); new marriage license, change voter registration back to Birth name, even though you are married, NO one has explained who that effects your social security records and payments! The outright assault on women in USA

(2/9) Republicans keep peddling the claim that proving citizenship at the polls is not a big deal. But there are only two documents that do so for someone born in the United States: an unexpired passport or an original or certified copy of a birth certificate.

democracydocket.comVoter ID tends to poll well. But that doesn’t mean voters really want itBy focusing on this issue ahead of the midterm elections, Trump and the GOP might be helping Democrats.

(3/9) Driver’s licenses – even REAL IDs – do not prove citizenship. Only five states — Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Washington — issue Enhanced Driver's Licenses that are restricted to U.S. citizens.

(4/9) Only about half of Americans even have a passport. And Black Americans have much lower rates of holding passports than White Americans. This is not a coincidence. This is a way for Trump to disadvantage one of the most loyal groups of Democratic voters.

(5/9) Not everyone in the U.S. has a birth certificate, either. Older voters are less likely to have been born in a hospital, where they would have received an official birth certificate. And older Black voters who were born in the Jim Crow South were oftentimes excluded from hospitals.

And the percentage of MAGA’s being able to find the right documents and id is likely equally small. I’ve never understood how this doesn’t disenfranchise both sides, with the less educated, lower wage earners disproportionately affected?