Reply #24: Exactly - at bottom, the voter ID thing is an attempt to limit D votes [View All]

[petronius]

masquerading as a plan to fix a problem that apparently doesn't exist. If the expressed justification for ID was true, then the same people pushing for ID at the poll would be pushing for an end to absentee voting. But since absentee votes trend R, we haven't heard a peep...

Personally, I don't have a problem with showing ID - voting is an important act, should be taken seriously, and is worth some effort - but before we take any action that may add to the difficulty of voting I want to see some evidence that we're actually correcting a problem. Particularly since any money spent on requiring ID might better be spent on adding more polling stations, improving poll-worker training, enhancing the trustworthiness of electronic voting, etc...