For what it's worth, when Missouri passed its voter id law they included funding to provide people free id, if needed for voting.
I was working the MO secretary of state office at this time, and though I wasn't directly involved with it, I did see them help a lot of people get ids. Most of the time it was just helping people fill out forms or paying a fee for them but there were a few complicated situations. One woman had fled a domestic violence situation in another state with just the clothes on her back. She had no identifying documents of any kind. The SoS ending up coordinating with two other states to get documents and hiring a lawyer to get a judge to reestablish her identity in court.
So in the case of Missouri at least, real resources were committed to get ids for anyone who asked for it.
> you need to plan a decade or more in advance and actively help people get the IDs.
I was working the MO secretary of state office at this time, and though I wasn't directly involved with it, I did see them help a lot of people get ids. Most of the time it was just helping people fill out forms or paying a fee for them but there were a few complicated situations. One woman had fled a domestic violence situation in another state with just the clothes on her back. She had no identifying documents of any kind. The SoS ending up coordinating with two other states to get documents and hiring a lawyer to get a judge to reestablish her identity in court.
So in the case of Missouri at least, real resources were committed to get ids for anyone who asked for it.
> you need to plan a decade or more in advance and actively help people get the IDs.
That's probably true too.