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Samurai_Man posted...

I've never understood why having an ID to vote is so controversial. You have to have an ID to fly, driver a car, or hell even order a drink at the bar. Seems like a no brainer to have to have an ID to do something such as vote.

From what I hear people don't really have an issue with requiring an id to vote. It's the types of ids that are accepted that is the problem. For example, my state let's you use your hunting or fishing licenses, but not your state university id as a valid voter id. But the good news is that you can get a free id for the purpose of voting if you go to a DMV. Unfortunately they permanently closed DMVs in certain areas after the law was passed, making it nearly impossible to get such an id for some people. Oddly enough the majority of DMVs that were permanently closed were ones in areas with higher minority populations.