Member poll regarding birth certificates and/or passports

#1.  My birth certificate is handy. 

#1 Very handy

I highly suspect none of Kevin's story is true.  

Candy, you're conflating two processes, which many people debating this issue habitually do.

You have to be a citizen and a resident of a given state to REGISTER. At that point, in order to vote, your signature confirms that you are that registered voter. If you are indeed that voter, then you have already provided proof of citizenship.

That's been the way it's done for the last two centuries. And it works. The signature on the ballot is compared to the signature on the registration document. If there appears to be a discrepancy, the ballot is set aside for later scrutiny and if necessary, the voter is contacted.

Anyone who votes without being registered will have their ballot thrown out. Easy peasy.

Yeah, it might be either/or, since replacing the passport card requires me to fill out forty-seven forms, pay a hefty fee, and wait 90+ days for processing. It's even slower since the agency that handles passports got DOGE'd.

The Oregon conversion can be done by submitting a one-page form, paying $30, and waiting about ten days. Thank God I live in Oregon.

I was unlucky in that I had all my important personal docs in my car, because I was changing residences. I took a two-month hiatus to handle my sister's estate in Arizona. Then I collided with a herd of cows on the way there, destroying my car and putting me in the hospital for eight days. I asked the policeman who arrived at the scene to please grab my documents folder. He graciously did, and it accompanied me to the hospital. When I woke the next morning, the folder AND my wallet were gone. As was the $280 cash I had had on me.

Never visit Arizona. A den of thieves.

So if you become a German citizen, your children automatically do as well? Sounds like the opposite of MAGA policy!

Why do you continually say asshole things like that?

There are ways to get the passport faster. It takes a bit of doing and you have to be willing to go to Seattle but it can be done. 

There is a passport office in Seattle. If one has "proof of international travel plans" within the proper time frame they can make an appointment to get a passport very quickly. 

I dropped off my application packet and was able to come back and pick up my passport the next business day. 

Sometimes it can be done as soon as the same day. 

I don't remember the exact time frame required to set up an appointment but basically you have to have "plans of international travel" within the next few weeks. 

My "proof of international travel plans" was a fully refundable hotel reservation in Canada. 

Not necessarily, that's why my son is going through the process of citizenship with me.  This is the process that the German Consulate recommended. 

But they charge a hefty additional fee, right? It's always been the case that if you pony up a little baksheesh, you can get the gummint to move like a snail instead of a glacier. And of course people need quickie passports all the time, for a variety of reasons.

I assume that I could do that trick in Portland as well. The office I went to to get the card originally was on Portland's east side. Turned out to be the week before the city's pandemic shutdown, so I didn't get my card for six months. No big deal, it's not like I would have been traveling.

I have the glacial (regular) version of the process already under way. I feel confident that I'll get my replacement card no later than 2038. December 2038.

I wonder just what the asshole who stole my passport book and card intended to do with them. I made a major mistake telling the passport people that my docs had been stolen. They gave me thirty-five new forms to fill out and made me supply a sworn affidavit. I should have said I lost them in a fire, or the dog ate them, or something.