Requiring a photo ID to vote, as the Carter-Baker commission recommends, would have a chilling effect on voter participation. It would block some Americans from the political process.
The Carter-Baker recommendations are so restrictive that even a valid U.S. passport or photo ID issued by the U.S. military isn't good enough. Voters must have a driver's license that meets the requirements of the controversial Real ID Act, which set strict standards for obtaining state-issued licenses.
According to a 2001 election-reform report, 6% to 10% of voting-age Americans don't have driver's licenses, and requiring them would be a "burden that would fall disproportionately on people who are poorer and urban."
If Carter and Baker had one ounce of decency they would let the poor use their valid passports!
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Get some sort of proof-of-ID law passed before the 2008 election in any two of Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania and see R waltz to victory.
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