# The most important thing you need to know about the voter ID issue . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 29, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-important-thing-you-need-to-know-about-the-voter-id-issue/664813 "2013-07-29T14:42:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 248
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-important-thing-you-need-to-know-about-the-voter-id-issue/664813/248 "2013-07-31T21:38:07Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Yes, exactly right. We have mechanisms for determining what is, and is not, reasonable. And they are the legislatures, and then the courts. Yes, and this kind of Intertubes-wrangle, like discussions in bars and coffeehouses and at dinner-tables and at “Town Hall” meetings, is all **part** of that political process, as it shapes the parameters of the debate and positions the boundaries of the Overton Window and affects how everything plays out at the polls on e-day. There is a process, and we are doing it now. So . . . what is your **point,** here? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-important-thing-you-need-to-know-about-the-voter-id-issue/664813)._