At least one per state, and they all have the same information. The State Department was happy with my piece of yellow paper from the city of Buffalo that only says that they have a record of my birth - that's it: no indication of gender or parents. They also accepted my hand-written marriage certificate with a half-assed embossment. Will the "must have an id to vote" crowd make accommodations for all the various formats of birth certificates/marriage licenses/name change decrees or will this become another reason to deny people their rights to vote?
Other problems arise when people's names don't fall into the British "First Middle Last Name" format. For formal and government purposes I have more than 3 names. It's correct on my real id driver's license, but when they sent an update to the registrar of voters they concatenated all the middle names. Fortunately I live in a county with a very diverse population where the voters' office is staffed by people of at least normal intelligence, so they were able to make the correction quickly ("yeah, the DMV does that a lot"
and without my having to go to the other end of the county with a heap of documents.
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