(another thing Obama talked about on Leno)
how did asking for ID at the polls become a "deterrent"
there's a huge difference between asking for ID and making someone pass requirements to vote.
somehow our modern government has managed to fuse them together.
only people who want to corrupt an election would not want voters to be validated.
why isn't the public outraged?
It becomes a deterrent when the need to show ID comes just a month or so before a major election. Even though there seems to be more voter fraud at the government level than at the voter level, those kowtowing to ALEC COULD have brought this up right after Obama was elected and then voters would have 2 years to figure out how to get an ID.
It becomes a deterrent when those most likely to have a problem getting a current ID at all would be those in the inner cities (the ones that tend to vote democrat anyway). This is gerrymandering at a much more refined level.
I don't want a corrupt election. And I read how there are people who use their own positions in the election process up on charges of interfering with voter registration. It takes a LOT of false voters to have an impact in a race - it only takes one election official to shred (or lose) a few thousand registrations to swing a district. It would be absolutely recklessly stupid to think there's only 1 such case of that happening.
(Dangling chad, anyone?)