General Discussion

Please see where I already stated that people should pay child support, the sentence that ends with "duh." That was to set that as a baseline. No need for foul language.

It is not true that someone who had at one time the documents needed to obtain a passport would be able to present them for purposes of voting. For one category of voters, it rules out the vast majority of the trans people I know. Rules for obtaining correct passports have drastically changed over the years, and that was even before the "Real ID" version of document fascism entered the picture. I am sure there are other groups -- for instance, many people whose lives have been upended by fire and flood would be able to get a new passport, but not the original documents.

I simply see no reason to connect having a valid passport -- the basic document of citizenship, whether one likes it or not -- to the entirely separate matter of complying with child support. (Whoever is in power in Washington.) And to hand over this expansion of control to the Trumpists gives them another weapon to use against people.