Two options, neither necessarily to the exclusion of the other:
If you do not have or cannot afford (scoff) a state-issued picture ID....
1: Register to vote, get your picture taken. That picture goes into a database, similar to that of the BMV, if not the same one. When you show up to vote w/ your state issued photo ID. the poll workers go to the database, check you against the picture in the database, and then give you a ballot. If there is any question among the poll workers, you get a provisional ballot to be verified later.
2: Register to vote, get your thumbprint scanned. When you show up to vote w/o your state-issued picture ID,. you run your thumb over the scanner and given a green/red light to vote. A red light might be an error, so you cast a provisional ballot to be verified later.
This eliminates any cost to or burden on a low-income voter and therefore eliminates any argument regarding discrimination against same for political purposes.
What say ye?
You don't understand the issue.
The issue concerns citizens who registered to vote 30 or 40 years ago, have remained active and eligible on the voter registration rolls during that entire time, and lack the documents today through no fault of their own to obtain a current state issued ID to comply with the new laws being enacted.
The issue also concerns the fact that there is no evidence voter 'fraud' by identity manifest to the extent justifying the undue burden to the fundamental right to vote voter ID laws represent.
The state may not presume all voters are 'guilty' of voter fraud by identity and compel them to 'prove' that they are innocent by producing ID; to presume a citizen 'might' misuse a civil liberty does not warrant the state's restriction of that right.
Absolutely, right on the money, correct.
this is advocating BIG GOVERNMENT in the worst way...for all of us to "need Papers" like in Nazi Germany, and to have to show our Papers, whenever the Gestapo decides....
We are not guilty of voter fraud by impersonating someone else....yet people are advocating for us that are innocent, to prove our innocence....by the gvt keeping a database on us, is the only way we can prove our innocence... can only be accomplished bull crap, through a gvt issue photo id.
this is such a FAUX AND CONTRIVED issue of voter fraud that could take place and NOT in any way, a real issue of voter fraud.....that would be stopped by ONLY having a gvt issued photo id.
My mother in law would have been one of those people disenfranchised of her vote, because she did not have a gvt issued photo id, until the last few years of her life, because she finally decided to learn how to drive a car in her late 70's or nearing 80 years old