You mean some of lived in the 21st Century. When I have opened a bank account I needed ID. When my elderly Grandmother opened a bank account 2 years ago she had to present ID (and in fact there was a whole lot of trouble because she had to go about getting a copy of her marriage certificate, because her birth certificate last name didnt match her current one). When ever I have started a job I have had to show ID.
That's nice. What part of "You're not the center of the universe" escapes you? How many times do I have to point out that your life experiences are only a tiny subset of all the experiences and situations that exist for the great diversity of people we call Americans?
Certainly there are all sorts of reasons one MAY need a drivers license. MAY is the key word there. A great many people do not have any of those reasons. They already have their bank account. They already have a job ... or in a huge number of cases they had their job, worked for 30 or 40 years, and are now retired. Or they are students who don't drive and get by on a student ID, something many of the Republican voter suppression laws prohibit as a valid voter ID. (Why is that, do you suppose?) For me, for example, rather than writing checks, I use American Express for almost everything I buy in person. I don't get asked for ID when I use my AmEx. American Express is also quite happy to take my mailed check every month, no ID required. I've noticed Amazon and Newegg never ask me for my ID either.
All of this is a complete diversion from the real issue here. Photo voter ID laws do effectively nothing to improve election integrity. First, there is no evidence that in-person voter fraud happens to any material extent. Absentee ballot fraud? Yes. In-person fraud? No. Photo voter ID laws purport to solve a problem that basically doesn't exist.
Second, even if there was a material level of in-person voter fraud, photo ID laws won't help, Such laws are trivially easy to circumvent simply by switching to an absentee ballot instead. Further, an absentee ballot is faster, easier, and far less risky than standing in long voting lines, pretending to be someone you're not. If you wanted to sway an election, in-person fraud is about the worst possible way to do it. Absentee ballots are far easier. Not coincidentally, virtually all of the examples of voting fraud offered by Republicans have actually been absentee ballot fraud, not in-person fraud.
Third, it is a simple, statistical fact that a certain American demographic is disproportionately more likely to lack the state photo ID mandated by these laws. This demographic includes the elderly, the poor, minorities, and students. This demographic is statistically more likely to vote for Democrats. Therefore, photo voter ID laws will have the effect of suppressing Democratic votes in favor of Republicans -- all while NOT having a material impact on vote fraud.
So, given that these laws are unnecessary, ineffective, and discriminatory against a Democratic voter demographic, why do you suppose Republican officials are pushing so hard for such laws? One possibility is they're a bunch of clueless idiots. They truly do not understand why their darling law does not accomplish its purported goal while fortuitously suppressing votes for their opponents. Sure. Two, they know exactly what they're doing and fully understand that photo ID laws do exactly what they really want: help Republicans win elections.
Now which do you suppose is the real reason?
