The most important thing you need to know about the voter ID issue . . .

If the goal is to further decrease the number of voters, it’s an excellent idea. The passage of such a law coupled with some timely rumors about what the government will be doing with all those fingerprints, and the voting ranks will be thinned out even more than they are now, which is certainly one of the goals of the Republican Party. You will be losing many more legitimate(but already paranoid) voters than fraudulent voters.