Originally posted by: Jhhnn
Proponents haven't shown any actual need for such a law- the whole notion of "voter fraud" is a myth.
http://truthaboutfraud.org/
Nor do many understand quite how restrictive some laws really are in terms of requirements. I dealt with it recently when my elderly father in law moved from Oregon to Colorado. Because he no longer drove, he'd inadvertently allowed his Oregon ID to expire, which wasn't of any consequence at all when he lived in Oregon. But in Colorado, he couldn't register to vote w/o photo ID, and he couldn't get photo ID with an expired ID from another state- SS card, SS Checks, retirement fund checks, credit cards, utility bills as proof of residency- not good enough. He had to send to the county seat of the small town in Oklahoma where he was born to get a copy of his birth certificate... but he had to send a copy of valid state photo ID to get it... it was almost a catch-22, but the folks in Oklahoma accepted his expired Oregon ID, and it all worked out...
Lots of seniors are in similar situations, as are people at the low end of the totem pole who basically live in the cash economy... by some estimates, as many as 10% or so of eligible voters lack the credentials to vote under these new systems...
Nonetheless, the drive to tailor the electorate goes on... Show me that there's a problem, and then we can talk about a solution, OK? Don't insinuate, don't offer up the usual innuendo, don't tell me how it protects the voting process from an imaginary threat- document voter fraud at a level suffient to justify state and personal expense and the PITA factor for many of the citizens affected.
The whole thing is kinda like the Iraqi nuclear program- the problem didn't exist except in the minds of the faithful...