Voter ID laws: Everyone has an ID, right? Nope

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cardus

On my planet, Riot, it is 2012 and NO ONE has a problem getting an ID card to confirm identity and residency.

But yet in real life, many people, an estimated 5 million American citizens, do. They don't live within 100 miles of a DMV, they don't have transportation, they are elderly and don't have a birth certificate (yet have been voting for 50 years at the same precinct), they are so poor they don't have money to get on a bus and take a day off work to go to a DMV and get an ID.

There is no voter fraud. It's virtually non-existent. And the voter fraud that is found cannot be prevented by a photo ID.

Restrictive photo ID voting laws are simply an ALEC-generated Republican construct to attempt to prevent voters that often vote Democratic from voting. And the federal courts are agreeing.

I will not get into details, but it is a mortal shame that the person most responsible with upholding our country's "laws" -- political constructs that guide, in part, how we live -- refuses to do so when it comes to confirming a person's legal ability to vote.

That would be the Supreme Court and our judicial system. Not a president. Not a Congress. And the federal courts are throwing out restrictive GOP voter ID laws as unconstitutional right and left.

Every state in the Union already has laws determining eligibility to vote. Restricting those further is being found overwhelmingly unconstitutional. Period.