guessing you didn't READ your own thing? Look what is in RED that I highlighted above....Jimmy Carter and some other Republican man were on some study that recommended ID's for voting BUT THEY ALSO SAID, that it should be a 5 year process, BEFORE enacting the law that could disenfranchise many citizens.Just make the voters registration card a photo ID.I agree with Frank.
Voter ID required to be available eight months before major state elections at no expense.
but immediately states took this study and enacted voter ID laws, base on Jimmy Carter and the other Republican's, (I think it might have been John Snow?) suggestion BUT IGNORED that they felt it should be a 5 year process BEFORE enacting the Law.
I have no problem with your suggestion of doing such with those that are registering to vote,
HOWEVER, there are many loose ends to that suggestion that would be necessary to be worked out:
- What about the people that are already registered to vote? Do you make every person that is registered to vote already, go to a certain government spot, like the DMV to get a new voter registration card?
-What about the registering to vote drives, that take place on the Street....? How do you take their picture to go with the voter registration application? It is a world of easy digital today so I suppose a pic could be taken right there and then but I dunno?
-and IF EVERYONE has to make the trip to the nearest DMV to get reissued a voter's registration card, then in my opinion, this would be fairer...you are not calling on only a certain sector of the voting population to go over hurdles to be able to vote, but calling on EVERYONE to do such....
-but I still see problems with this...as example, right after, I believe it was Georgia, required gvt issued photo ID's to vote, they then shut down over half of their DMV offices in their poorest of neighborhoods...making it near impossible or very difficult for the citizen that did not drive, to get there...having to lose their hourly pay for hours of work being missed because they had to take 3 buses to get to the DMV and 3 buses back kind of stuff....
Where ever these hourly paid folks have to go to get their new and revised voter's id card, has to be near them.
-And are you going to require EVERYONE to bring in their own birth certificate at the same time of registering or reregistering to prove citizenship?
-and then, YOU are taking away the right for each State to run their own election process
which could be a problem....a constitutional issue?
-And will you allow the 5 year process for this transition to take place before demanding the new voter id card with photo at the polls?
"BUT THEY ALSO SAID, that it should be a 5 year process, BEFORE enacting the law that could disenfranchise many citizens."
What total nonsense.
"Although liberal media support the old wives tale of GOP voter suppression by requiring identification, careful analysis shows a quite different reality:
“The findings of this analysis suggest that voter identification requirements, such as requiring non-photo and photo identification, have virtually no suppressive effect on reported voter turnout.
Controlling for factors that influence voter turnout, states with stricter voter identification laws largely do not have the claimed negative impact on voter turnout when compared to states with more lenient voter identification laws.
Based on the Eagleton Institute's findings, some members of the media have claimed that voter identification law suppress voter turnout, especially among minorities.[80] Their conclusion is unfounded. When statistically significant and negative relationships are found in our analysis, the effects are so small that the findings offer little policy significance.
More important, minority respondents in states that required photo identification are just as likely to report voting as are minority respondents from states that only required voters to say their name.”
For a thorough statistical analysis of the effect of voter identification requirements:
New Analysis Shows Voter Identification Laws Do Not Reduce Turnout
This study wasn't about people being disenfranchised due to having to have a Government issued PHOTO ID.... the study INCLUDED non photo id's....
these citizens do have ID's, paired together should be good enough to identify themselves at the voting place.........BUT NOOOOOOOO, the Republicans are forcing it to be GOVT ISSUED PHOTO ID'S....
and also, there are several studies and several court rulings that disagree with you and the your link's opinion.