VOTER IDs- I need information not a lecture

[underpants]

I know there are probably more important and timely issues to bring up but I got in a conversation about this last night and I really can't say that I understand it.

I think that the arguments goes that other than say check cashing or vagrancy or law enforcement issues voting is a RIGHT and therefore you can't be required to pay or do anything to participate. There also are some literacy issue being that there can't be a literacy test which an ID basically requires. I said last night that I was pretty sure that this had been decided by the courts across the board-no ID can be required for reasons stated above and going back to the poll tax and literacy tests.

Of course at my polling place here this morning there was a sign saying that you had to have ID and it listed what would satisfy that requirement and at the end it mentioned an attest statement but that was never mentioned in the rest of the posted flier.

Okay so help me to understand so I know in the future.

Why is it that no ID is still required?

[papau]

1. Haven't the lower Courts OK'd voter ID if it was provided for free and didn't

require anything not provided for free - like birth certificates which cost money - be shown, and if it had a provisional ballot attest rule?

The GOP idea is to make it inconvenient for the elderly and poor to vote because they vote Dem.

The GOP "electronic registered voter voting roll" likewise is great for having "innocent" errors that remove folks from areas that vote Dem off of the registered voter lists - like in Florida where every year the latest "cleaned up" list excludes blacks in large numbers and does so incorrectly.

[blondeatlast]

2. My objection is that I already have a state issued voter ID to vote.

Why do I need to show additional ID?

It slows down the process, too.

[papau]

3. It's likely your already issued state ID had a fee attached by the state? n/t

n/t

[blondeatlast]

4. No--maybe I'm not getting something here.

I'm talking strictly about my voter registration card.

[papau]

7. a voter registration card? OK - my bad guess - do you have a picture

ID law for voting - eveb that does not make sense would be tossed by a Court -

but I am unable to come up with a good reason :-(

[hamerfan]

5. Not to speak for someone else,

but when they said they already had a state issued ID, I think they meant a voter registration card. Cheers,
dumpbush

[treestar]

6. It is still in the courts and the Supreme Court has yet to hear it

but will not enjoin operation of the law in the meantime. So you have to follow that law until it is declared unconstitutional.