From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Feb 22, 2026 at 2:17:27 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""  wrote:   
      
   > BTR1701  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Seems as though Comrade Mamdani is taking a lot of crap from his fellow Dems   
   >> for requiring five forms of ID to become a city snow shoveler.   
   >   
   >> He did so poorly clearing the snow from the last storm that he's now asking   
   >> people to sign up and volunteer do the shoveling after the upcoming storm   
   >> clears. Imagine that. Paying all those taxes for a city department   
   >> specifically to clear snow, only to have the government beg you to do it   
   >> yourself because they ran out of money.   
   >   
   >> And to participate in this volunteer snow shoveling program, you have   
   >> to show two forms of ID, a Social Security card, and two pictures of   
   >> yourself. You need all that to shovel snow in NYC, but to walk in and   
   >> vote? Nope, you don't need any of that. And I've been reliably informed   
   >> that requiring ID is racist and that blacks and married women won't be   
   >> able to participate because they're too thick to figure out how to get ID,   
   >> so not only is Mamdani a racist, he's shutting out half the population   
   >> from even being able to shovel snow for him.   
   >   
   > Where do you get that these are volunteers? They are per diem employees   
   > which means New York must ask them to comply with both federal tax law   
   > and immigration law. They aren't paying illegal aliens to shovel.   
   >   
   > The stupid crap is minimum age 18. This is a boy's job.   
   >   
   > You need specific ID to register to vote and to be found on specific   
   > government databases. The rest of the United States doesn't engage in   
   > California's potential ballot fraud problem which still cannot be solved   
   > with voter ID.   
      
   Sure it can. Under a voter ID requirement, you'd be required to provide your   
   driver license number on your mail-in ballot, which will then be cross-checked   
   before the ballot is counted.   
      
   A ballot harvester who's filling out blank ballots will be highly unlikely to   
   also have a list of dozens or hundreds of people whose names to fill them out   
   under *and* their DL numbers to go with it.   
      
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