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Florida story. When FL passed the new requirements, my wife and I had hospital certificates, but we wrote, paid for originals from other states, etc. and got registered...but here is the short version of the story.

My neighbors were a mister and miss. Mister was a WWII German engineer in the US via Argentina about 1920, offered amnesty by the US to build rockets for the military here. He later finished a degree at MIT and retired as a Gov. employee.

The miss was born on a farm in Nebraska, and had nothing but a Bible with names and dates.

Mister and Miss both had voted in Florida for decades (always for the GOP)!

Their two children are both attorneys practicing in Florida. After a year of trying, they could never get documentation to vote under the new laws. There was simply no way to document their history at the time to satisfy Florida's requirements. The lawyers wrote to Germany, county records in Nebraska, produced marriage certificates, employment records, etc. At the time of their deaths, both were still fighting the battle.

The current list of documents is below, but it changes from time to time:

An original or certified copy of a United States birth certificate
A valid, unexpired United States passport
A naturalization certificate issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security
A Consular Report of Birth Abroad provided by the United States Department of State
A current and valid Florida driver license or Florida identification card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, if such driver license or identification card indicates United States citizenship
A current and valid photo identification issued by the Federal Government or the state which indicates United States citizenship
An order from a federal court granting United States citizenship