How does a govt issued photo ID card prevent any registered voter from committing fraud?
You're being played.
The States, when vetting people registering to vote in their state, should be checking that the person applying is 18 and older, not a felon still on parole etc IF applicable,, and a citizen of the USA. The States can use E-verify, the system set up for employers to check that their new hires are citizens, to check for citizenship on all new registrants and existing registered voters.
Requiring citizens who have lived their whole lives without a govt issued photo id, should not be required to get one, just to vote, when the States can verify this, without one.
We as citizens have voted for two hundred and twenty five plus years without these govt issued photo ids, were all those elections fraudulent and should not have counted?
If the voter is registered to vote then they should be allowed to vote, without hurdles put in the way which is similar to a poll tax.
If an I'd is required at the polling place, to prove they are the person registered, then the registered voter should be allowed to use various ids, like their electric bill, or work id, or SSAN card.
I have voted for the past 30 years, and have never been required to show an ID in the various states I lived and voted in.
I vote absentee ballot in Maine and have never been required to show a govt issued photo or non photo ID to vote that way....and I'll be damned if they ever try to make me!
Illegals, and those who do not qualify to be a registered voter, should NOT be on the voter rolls, in the first place. States should be vetting, and doing their jobs, to keep voter rolls clean as a whistle.....that should NOT be put on us citizens. The non citizens, can get a fake id.... The poor and disabled that do not drive or own a car, is who you are burdening.
What republicans have done since they started their quest to disenfranchise citizens of their constitutional right to vote, is close DMVs in black neighborhoods, right after their voter id requirements have passed. Making getting a govt id much harder for people who do not drive in the first place, to get to a place to get one.
This was a strategic, republican plan, to disenfranchise citizens of color, who repubs believe will vote democratic....cheating.
Just like their gerrymandering.
Just like republicans removing voting places in neighborhoods of color....all to disenfranchise CITIZENS that generally vote for the Republican s opposition.