This is completely ridiculous. You need a valid state issued ID to do all manner of things from buying a 6 pack of beer to using a debit card. Calling the requirement for Voters to have ID a poll tax is a cheap shot designed to smeer conservatives who tend to be white as racists.
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Well, well, it looks like we may have discovered the Democrats secret weapon in winning elections.
The fact is voter ID laws are NOT NECESSARY. Studies by non-partisan groups have found you would be more likely to be hit by lightning than find voter fraud. In FL there were FOUR cases of voter fraud out of millions of votes cast. So to prevent those measly four people from voting you'd kick MILLIONS of voters off the roles (who happen to be black, Latino and also happen to vote Democratic).
The fact is voter ID laws are created to prevent minority and Democratic voters from voting. The Republican party has actually ADMITTED that the laws were designed to deliver the 2012 election to the Repubs and they admitted that they were targeting black voters to remove from the voting roles. Yeah, that's not racist is it?
The problem is that if voter fraud is happening, it is most likely in a form that is not being caught. I can only speak for Minnesota, but in my experience voter fraud is incredibly easy to pull off. All I would need to do is walk into my polling place early in the day and say that I am actually my neighbor. I would receive a ballot and then vote. I could do the same thing ad nauseum in different polling places where I happen to know the name of a constituent. If I know that they are not likely to vote then it becomes all that more difficult to catch. I look at it as a cost benefit analysis. What will it cost the state to provide IDs against how realistic of a possibility is invisible voter fraud. In that case I see no problem with the cost.
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