I use the passport for "voter i.d." a.k.a, voter SUPPRESSION, to pick at the wingnuts

[UTUSN]

Obviously, I have a driver's license and about TEN veterans things, but ever since wingnuts instituted I.D. for voting I have used the passport, the only thing I use the passport for.

Especially in the Primaries, where the Parties are identified, I say in a loud voice, "I use a PASSPORT to vote because I feel I'm in a FOREIGN COUNTRY!1"

That's my protest re: voter suppression. It bugs me more that the wingnuts allow gun permits for i.d.

[Layzeebeaver]

1. To bad you can get a stamp for that.

Just sayin

As an expat in the U.K. I use my passport for EVERY ID request. It’s a good doc.

[at140]

2. As a naturalized US citizen from India, I protect my passport more than

any other document in my possession. Once I made the mistake of driving into Canada without my passport, because I was told all you need is a drivers license. My wife (born in USA citizen) and me were visiting the magnificent Niagara falls area. We crossed the border every evening into Canada and then back to our motel on US side for the night. On the way back to our home in Chicago we decided to drive through Canada and enter US border at the Detroit crossing. The border clerk there stopped me from re-entering my home country. He looked Hispanic. A more thorough investigation followed by his superiors at the border crossing, I was asked several questions about when and how I was granted the citizenship, and I was able to enter my adopted country. Never again!

[CTyankee]

4. My passport was stolen when I was traveling in Italy...

It was in my travel wallet, instead of where it SHOULD have been, in the safe provided in my room. I had to get on a train and go to Milan to the U.S. Consulate's office. I did get to go to La Scala and see a bit of a rehearsal while I waited. It cost (then) $100 in American dollars.

Traveling abroad, don't make my mistake Always take 3 photocopies of your face page in your passport. One copy you take with you, one taped to the inside of your bag, one you leave at home.

[at140]

6. I have 2 copies automatically lol passport & naturalization certificate

and like you I always have a copy at home. Most of my recent travels have been on cruise ships.
There you don't need passport to get back on ship after exploring any port in any country.
All you need is the cruise card issued to you. And if you lose it, the ship always has a photo of your mug,
and they can probably use that to let you board the ship. We have roamed extensively in south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and never needed the passport, during cruise ship stops.

[CTyankee]

8. That's great. I know as a senior I would appreciate that service by the cuise line.

I was hoping to get to Barcelona with my daughter in late October. That was over when the EU said "No Americans!" I don't blame them but it was too bad. Maybe later when this beast is out of the WH.

I see that Road Scholar was offering a trip to Greece on a cruise ship. I would love that and hubby would go to but we'd need handicap accessible. Is Greece part of the EU?

[at140]

10. Barcelona is a good port to board a cruise to Greece

and ships now-a-days are fully handicap accessible. My wife was weak from undergoing chemo for 2 years when we boarded Carnival Ecstacy ship this February 2020 in Jacksonville. The walkway from ground to ship entrance was 4 or 5 stories high! My wife does not normally use a wheel chair, but they placed her in a wheel chair and pushed her 4-5 floors up, with a different person taking up the task on each floor! We were asked to fill out a form saying we had not traveled to China recently and they checked our forehead temperatures.

The ship was full, we never missed any shows or the buffet, most of the crew was SE Asian. None of us caught covid-19 or had any symptoms upon return.

Greece is part of EU and you can use Euro's. Not sure how handicap accessible Greece is but should be fine.

[CTyankee]

11. OK, No Greece until the EU changes its mind. Maybe when Biden gets in and sstarts putting

meaningful health regulations in practice the EU will change its mind. But right now Europe has a renewed surge of coronavirus.

[at140]

12. Death rates may not be surging in Europe

Watch for ratio of infections/deaths. That is the critical number in my opinion.

[CTyankee]

13. Yes, my bad, I should have been clearer.

But I am not going out unless absolutely necessary nowadays. If I went to Europe I wouldn't go out. That makes the trip pointless.

[at140]

14. Life is short. Better to risk and enjoy what you like before it is too late

This is the thought I keep in my head at age 80....when on my death bed, I will regret more what I did not do which I wanted to do and could have done than the opposite.

[CTyankee]

15. I am 81 and I traveled to Europe once and sometimes twice a year to Europe. I was everywhere

except for Hungary, Austria and Germany. The last two I wouldn't go to.

I was going for the art which I would write about. I had a bucket list. I feel pretty good about it and glad I devoted so much financial resource to it. It was life changing.

I would love to go back to my beloved Florence, tho... (and my beloved Paris).

I took a trip down the rivers of Holland on a retrofitted barge and in Amsterdam I broke down in tears in the Van Gogh Museum, seeing "Wheat Fields with Crows." I was told that people regularly break down and cry in that museum...

[at140]

22. You have done amazing things.

Paris is beautiful especially after dark. I loved French Riviera, it is gorgeous place but too pricey to live there. Visited Monaco home of princess Grace, and Monte Carlo. The summer palace of Portuguese kings in Sintra was worth the visit from Lisbon. Vasco da Gama received his orders there to sail the world, the Leaning Tower is all made of white Italian marble and was bigger than I had imagined, and went to Rome on a train from Civitavecchia which is where the cruise ship docks for Rome. Italian trains on Sundays are not dependable but much cheaper than tour of Rome from the ship. Do not miss Gelato in the icecream shop just across from the cruise dock in Civitavecchia.

[GulfCoast66]

17. We always take multiple photo copies.

In addition we invested in travel clothing with impossible security pockets to open by a pickpocket. I won’t give a specific brand but if you google it you will find them. They make dressy looking slacks and shirts. We try to dress respectfully when in Europe.

[CTyankee]

23. Oh, I have a bag I call my Europe Bag. I had a system for my clothes and only stuff that could

be washed/dried quickly were packed. I had a system. Always two pair of walking shoes. Very basic makeup. No high heels. I always traveled in the spring or the fall and minimal rain gear.

After 11 trips I was an expert!

[GulfCoast66]

24. You beat me by one trip!

But we can always slip up.

You are correct. Unless traveling leave it in the hotel safe.

We always stay in apartments now so there is no safe.

God knows when we can go back!

Have a nice evening.

[CTyankee]

26. Funny thing my first and last trips to Europe were both to Sicily

Taormina was a knockout. Lots of other great places, too.

[GulfCoast66]

27. Never been there. Only North Italy. Venice, Milan and the mountains and lakes

I love France. The wife Germany. Germany is fine but the food bores me to tears.

If you haven’t been to Iceland you should go. In the shoulder seasons. The wife wanted the trip and I was ambivalent, but it exceeded expectations. We rented a nice flat in the heart of the city.

Have a nice day.

[Tanuki]

28. Also consider scanning your passport and e-mailing it to your own e-mail

account and/or saving in a cloud file. Either way would be easy to access in case of loss of the original. I had to scan my passport anyway to apply for visas so I already had a copy on a thumb drive.

[brooklynite]

3. Ironically, almost any foreign country you can imagine...

...issues a National ID card and requires ID to vote...

I for one don’t object to Voter ID laws as long as they universally and freely distributed.

[UTUSN]

5. Perhaps ironically here/now, but most of my voting life it wasn't a contingency, plus

I guess I've been spoiled not to live daily life comparing activities to those in other countries, so there's that.

[at140]

7. Even the world's largest & poor democracy has printed over 800 million

voter ID cards with photo. That would be India with a population of 1300+ million.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

9. Is there something wrong or weird about that?

Since they instituted that Real ID stuff, we have to use a passport to fly within the US, well unless we get the Real ID compliant state id that only just became available July of this year in my state. It seems like the passport is our national id based on the Real ID law.

[GulfCoast66]

18. I always use my passport when I fly. Domestic or international.

My Global Entry is tied to it anyway.

[brooklynite]

16. If someone did this at a polling center I was working at...

I’d stare for a second with mild disinterest and go back to what I was doing.

But if “owning the conservatives” makes you happy...

[UTUSN]

20. (Since thread is kicked up: ) Staring at post with mild uninterest ... haha

[marie999]

19. I have never been asked for an I.D. when I go to vote.

It's a small town but I don't know anyone who works at the poll. They just ask me my name and address, look it up, and give me a ballot.

[UTUSN]

21. It's a state law where I am, a wingnut form of voter suppression.

[GulfCoast66]

25. I've voted for 36 years in 3 different states.

I’ve always been asked for my ID. Never thought about it.

[Ms. Toad]

29. In ohio, and some other states, a passport cannot be used for voter id.

So anyone thinking about following your suggestion should check in advance (and take additional ID, just in case).

https://www.acluohio.org/vote-center/what-id-do-i-need

[UTUSN]

31. I didn't make any suggestion. I'm a Choicer & my choices are mine.

I wouldn't be doing it if it weren't allowed where i am.

[MineralMan]

30. In some jurisdictions, you can't do that.

Voting ID Must include your current address. That's because of local races, including House member races. To vote, you must live in the district.

[UTUSN]

32. See posts 29 & 31 which should serve to innoculate us

against another 20 years without our trading tips.

[MineralMan]

33. It bears repeating. So, I repeated it.