Reply #2: A Missouri Congressman couldn't even vote under MO's voter ID law.

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One lawmaker’s experience

U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, a Missouri Democrat, carries a government-issued photo identification card that he uses to vote in the House.

With that card, Skelton helps make laws that affect Missourians.

But he can’t use it to get a "nondriver license" so he can vote in Missouri this November.

Skelton doesn’t drive, so he doesn’t have a driver’s license. To obtain a non-driver ID, he went to the license bureau in Lexington, Mo. There, he says, “a very nice lady” was prepared to take his congressional card as proof of his identity: “She told me, ‘I know who you are.’ ”

But officials at the Missouri Department of Revenue nixed Skelton’s application.

Under the state’s new photo ID law, Skelton was told, he needs a passport or a birth certificate. “I have no idea where my birth certificate is,” he says.

Skelton says he will either apply for a copy of his birth certificate or bring his passport back to Missouri from Washington. He can use the passport to vote.

What does he think of the new law?

“This is going to disenfranchise some nice people, particularly senior citizens who walk in without a photo ID or driver’s license,” he says.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/opinion/15309191.htm