You said it, not me. I've seen it firsthand. People in the hood with $100+ dollar shoes, somehow can't afford an ID to vote. Women struggling to paid their bills SOMEHOW manage to get longer hair and nails in the span of a week. But getting an ID (for about a fifth of what they spend on weave) is just TOOOOOO MUCH!!
Yeah, I said it because you sound ignorant. Living in the hood, even having trouble paying your bills is not what we're talking about here. Most of the people you are describing probably have id or would not have trouble getting it. What is the issue here is poverty (in some cases extreme poverty) combined with unconventional backgrounds or unstable current circumstances. We're not talking about young ladies who want to have their hair done. We're more frequently talking about older people with virtually no disposable income or an inability to track down certain documents.
News flash: I've been poor, lived in the 'hood, the whole nine. Yet, SOMEHOW, I managed to (rather easily) get a valid ID.
Once again, not the issue.
Saving $1.75 (seven quarters) a MONTH is a big deal? In what bizarro world is that? I was able to save more than that A WEEK, flipping burgers at Wendy's.
Did you have children? Were you living with your parents? Did you ever have an amount saved, then an emergency popped up which required you to spend it all? It may not be your reality, but it is certainly not a bizarro universe for people on the lower end of the economic scale to spend every dollar they earn within a month, and it's not due to weaves and $100+ shoes. You have kids, you have an emergency, you have no credit, you make very little money += spending literally every dime you have. It's called being poor.
$1.75? That's about two days' BUS FARE (or, it was back in the day when I was using public transit)!!!
Once again, your extreme arrogance showing. For some people, it's just a reality that every dollar has to be counted. Just because that does not apply to you doesn't mean that no one has those concerns.
In some places, IDs are FREE. So what's your silly excuse to cover that one?
The cost of the id is only one of several reasons people may not have an id. Several have been listed, over and over, in this thread.