http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20050619/ai_n14673154
" The contrast between adults of color and whites are sharp. A bit more than half of African-American men (55%) and a bit less than half of Hispanic men (46%) lack a valid driver's license. In contrast, only a sixth of white men (17%) lack such a license. A portion of those numbers can use suspended licenses to vote.
Generally among all adults, Hispanic women fare the worst. A whopping three-fifths (59%) lack valid licenses.
-- Among 18- to 24-year-olds, 64% of white men but only 22% of black men boast valid driver's licenses."
There were some widespread misconceptions in other threads, so apparently there was a need for this thread. Even though this has been covered before, some people just don't seem to understand that millions of americans have no photo ID. Furthermore, even a cursory inspection of the issue reveals that a photo ID requirement will do absolutely nothing to prevent any fraud whatsoever. (Read the following article for details.) The movement for photo id requirements is transparently an effort to selectively disenfranchise the poor and minorities, and has nothing to do with voter impersonation, which virtually never happens anyways.
http://www.demos.org/pubs/CFE_voterid_102706.pdf
"A recent survey of Ohio?s 88 county boards of elections found only four instances of ineligible people attempting to vote, out of over 9 million votes cast in the state during the 2002 and 2004 general elections?a fraud rate of 0.000044 percent.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reports that while 200 million votes were cast in federal elections since October 2002, only 86 individuals have been convicted of federal voter fraud?and none for offenses that would have been prevented by a voter ID requirement.
3 An extensive analysis of election fraud conducted by Professor Lorraine Minnite at Barnard College in 2002?the only study of its kind, to date? found that voter fraud is rare, that safeguards to prevent fraud are already in place, and that individual voter fraud rarely sways election results."
Edit: people also don't remember that the constitution prohibits poll taxes because they are discriminatory (all photo id's have a cost associated with them, thus requiring one constitutes a poll tax in the spirit of the constitutional amendment.):
"Amendment XXIV - Poll Tax Barred. Ratified 1/23/1964. History
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
" The contrast between adults of color and whites are sharp. A bit more than half of African-American men (55%) and a bit less than half of Hispanic men (46%) lack a valid driver's license. In contrast, only a sixth of white men (17%) lack such a license. A portion of those numbers can use suspended licenses to vote.
Generally among all adults, Hispanic women fare the worst. A whopping three-fifths (59%) lack valid licenses.
-- Among 18- to 24-year-olds, 64% of white men but only 22% of black men boast valid driver's licenses."
There were some widespread misconceptions in other threads, so apparently there was a need for this thread. Even though this has been covered before, some people just don't seem to understand that millions of americans have no photo ID. Furthermore, even a cursory inspection of the issue reveals that a photo ID requirement will do absolutely nothing to prevent any fraud whatsoever. (Read the following article for details.) The movement for photo id requirements is transparently an effort to selectively disenfranchise the poor and minorities, and has nothing to do with voter impersonation, which virtually never happens anyways.
http://www.demos.org/pubs/CFE_voterid_102706.pdf
"A recent survey of Ohio?s 88 county boards of elections found only four instances of ineligible people attempting to vote, out of over 9 million votes cast in the state during the 2002 and 2004 general elections?a fraud rate of 0.000044 percent.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reports that while 200 million votes were cast in federal elections since October 2002, only 86 individuals have been convicted of federal voter fraud?and none for offenses that would have been prevented by a voter ID requirement.
3 An extensive analysis of election fraud conducted by Professor Lorraine Minnite at Barnard College in 2002?the only study of its kind, to date? found that voter fraud is rare, that safeguards to prevent fraud are already in place, and that individual voter fraud rarely sways election results."
Edit: people also don't remember that the constitution prohibits poll taxes because they are discriminatory (all photo id's have a cost associated with them, thus requiring one constitutes a poll tax in the spirit of the constitutional amendment.):
"Amendment XXIV - Poll Tax Barred. Ratified 1/23/1964. History
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
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