First, yes, I concede that it wasn’t you I was responding to. It was JRDelirious. If you don’t feel that going to the DMV for a free ID is too much of a hassle to vote, then we agree. If you side with JRDelirious, then my arguments still stand directed towards you.
Second, Terr makes an excellent argument. If I can vote using my dead grandfather’s name, who would ever complain about it so that the fraud is discovered? I think that it is terribly disingenuous to say that there is no evidence of voter fraud when the system is so lax that voter fraud could occur in every election on a wide scale and nobody would be the wiser.
Do you know someone in the community who has died in the past 8 years? (varies by state) If so, you can go vote in their place. Any committed activist can double his vote. And no I don’t have evidence that this has happened because with no ID laws in place, there is no way anyone could tell that it EVER happened.
An ID requirement is a small, reasonable step to ensure identity. Look at the many other places that require it with far less consequences if fraud would happen.
I am also with Terr in that if you don’t have an ID in this modern world, or you can’t be bothered to take a trip to the DMV to get a free one, you have no business voting. And attempting to allow such people to vote is such obvious pandering by Democrats to people on the public dole to go out and vote for more Democrats to keep the public dole coming to them.
Not hard working people who are trying to get by. Those people would need to present ID at their jobs. These are people who do nothing but suckle at the government teat and want more. It is shameful that the Democrats have sunk to the level that they can’t win by getting votes of semi-responsible people in society. No, they need to drag a homeless guy on a crack binge out of his cardboard box and wheel him to the voting booth.