Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Do you have to show ID when you vote?

Its a tactic that has always been used to disenfranchise the poor and minorities.

I am ashamed of you, b. You are a modern day Jim Crowe.
I have no problem showing ID to vote. We require people to show ID in order to open a bank account, buy cigarettes, knives, medicines and alcohol, get married, pick up a parcel from the post office, etc, etc, etc. Why would we not require it so that someone can prove they are who they say they are when doing something so fundamental to our system as voting?

We're not living in 1920s Alabama, p. These are not illiterate sharecroppers we're talking about. ID is something everyone has in one form or another.