Why would you need to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles for an ID though? For a driver’s license I can somewhat understand but that should be the extent of their responsibilities.
Over here you go to your local registration office which basically every town has? It’s the same office for registering where you live (which you are also legally required to do) - meaning there are more than enough of them around. For smaller towns they are usually located in town halls, larger cities have many of them spread around.
Honestly, you’d easily get significant adaption of IDs by just mandating them for everything. Want a bank account? Need an ID. Want to get a job? Need an ID. Want to get a driver’s license? Need an ID. Are you older than 16? Believe it or not, need an ID.
If (nearly) everyone has an ID, it cannot be used as means for voter disenfranchisment.
Their source doesn’t seem reliable. They use a singular source (https://www.freedomforum.org/journalists-memorial/) for their WW1 and WW2 numbers.
It’s rather easy to see how these numbers are very much incomplete.
Why? It says that during WW2 a total of 10 journalists were killed in Germany - yet not one of them was German. With ~1.1 million German civilian deaths, I’d argue there were realistically a couple hundred German journalists among them at the very least. Sure, they were journalists for state propaganda outlets and I cannot bring myself to care about nazi propagandists. Yet they were journalists nonetheless who should be included in statistics.
And this doesn’t even begin to encompass all other countries where many more millions of civilians were killed. There is not a chance in hell the number of journalist deaths during WW2 is even in the same ballpark as ~60. 10,000 would be my lower estimate.