[mikester]

Requiring positive ID can prohibit some valid voters from voting at all. Blacks in the south are dead against it because it reminds them of the days when they were required to take literacy tests to assure that they weren't....er...a..I mean were able to vote. Elderly do not always have access to the services required to make sure their state issued ID cards are up to date. They may not drive making the need for a driver's license moot. Of course many of those who would be affected by the law histrocally vote liberal. Maybe she had a mandate or some political capital to spend.

I don't mind showing my ID but I can see why historically it is troublesome.

"papers please."