NEW YORK—The Trump administration and its radical right foot-soldiers in the federal government and in the states are undertaking a comprehensive scheme to undermine future state and federal elections, in effect rigging the rolls to keep themselves in power no matter what the voters decide.
Firstly, free anything sounds very un-american.
More generally though, that doesn’t really solve the problem.
People living in poverty often just don’t have the time, access, and / or mental acuity to attend to this type of personal administration stuff.
If you’re living hand-to-mouth, it’s just not a priority… you can’t eat your ID.
If you don’t have a home it may be difficult to obtain an ID, and if you have one it might be difficult to keep it.