This is an excuse that they use to continue their "protests", it isn't a very valid reason at all. In almost every case people who can vote have identification already, and in those few that they do not it can be (per the SCOTUS if it is free) required if it is provided at no cost.
Again this is rubbish, such people obtain ballots at their home and usually have forms of identification already (again, almost everybody already has identification) and they can and do vote at home. Now, as a person who lives rurally, I know that the smaller number of people make the effort to "get out the vote" much easier. We will drive people to get the necessary identification, and we'll drive them to the polls if necessary. It takes less volunteers to get it done, but a bit more miles. And during my time working the polls and efforts to get out the vote, I have yet to meet even one person who doesn't already have identification. Even among the poorest in our community.
Again, the evidence is actual illegal to gather. After making a law telling people you cannot look here then trying to tell people that "here" doesn't exist because people don't look there is a self-perpetuating form of forced ignorance.
The reason they fight it isn't because it would "suppress" votes, it is because it would be able to catch people, or would suppress fraudulent votes that we cannot even attempt to gather information for under the current laws. It isn't that "here" doesn't exist, it is that we aren't even allowed to look over there.
Shoot one valid form of identification is a copy (yes a copy, not even the original) of a utility bill. Do you know how easily that could be faked? Yet it would be taken as valid, the person would vote, and there would be "no evidence" of a fraudulent vote. You would sit here and tell me that because there was "no evidence" that nothing wrong had happened. It's preposterous.
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