Are Democrats telling us that some people aren't smart enough to obtain an ID or that Welfare recipients, ....?

No, we are telling you requiring the economically oppressed to obtain a new ID for the specific purpose of voting is a sufficient enough inconvenience or hardship to discourage some percentage of them from voting (and let's not pretend that is not precisely the intent of the proposed requirements, okay?) Voter fraud is an issue of so little consequence, it demands no preventative response. The penalties are severe and the benefit from the fraud is ONE individual vote! The risk to benefit ratio in voter fraud is so overwhelmingly unfavorable that only the profoundly mentally challenged would ever even consider it. It happens somewhere along the lines of one in multiple millions so you and your petty tyrant republicans want to spend millions of tax dollars to prevent a crime that occurs at a frequency of one in multiple millions? Aren't you the people that love to cite the millions of tax dollars in cost per 'created new job' ratio of the stimulus packages? This ratio doesn't equally rile up your self-righteous indignation? Furthermore, if you are soooooo concerned over voter fraud then you MUST be FRANTIC about election fraud, huh? (Look up the difference between 'election fraud' and 'voter fraud'.) Since you are the watchdogs for election integrity, please tell me already because the suspense is killing me, WHAT IS YOUR PROPOSAL TO PREVENT ELECTION FRAUD? Did I miss that announcement? Where do I go online to read the details on all the grand legislation proposals introduced by all your teabagger governors to prevent election fraud? Certainly, anyone so concerned over the integrity of the elctoral system would introduce election fraud prevention proposals hand in hand with voter fraud prevention proposals, right? Where is it? What is it? Who proposed it?

An ID is one thing but what the new laws are requiring is a photo ID. There are an estimated 25% of the US population that do not have a photo ID. You can obtain a photo ID at any state DMV office but the cost is from $8 to $25. Now if you are going to require a photo ID to vote, and if in order to obtain that photo ID you are going to charge a fee, then it is in violation of federal election laws since that would constitute a poll tax. Make photo IDs available free of charge to anyone who needs one and it is a different story.

No. We're saying that the poor have more trouble affording fees or arranging transportation to whatever venue issues IDs. I am all for a FREE photo ID and requirements to use it to vote. And I am for registration venues in poorer areas to void the need for the transportation.

In a way yes. Just like the judge who said that not putting a D or R, etc after a candidate's name on a ballot would hurt minority voters who then would not be able to find their candidate on the ballot. So basically what the Left is saying is that they are not smart enough to look for a name under the office for which they are voting (or smart enough to figure out who to vote for themselves and just vote for a letter) and are not smart enough to show their ID at the poll.

The funny thing is, Democrats will say that it's "too expensive" for the poor to get IDs, but even if we instituted a program giving free IDs to everyone, they'd still hate it.

I don't see the problem with verifying that people are who they say they are. It's not about this system "disenfranchising" voters, because the requirement to have an ID never seems to disenfranchise alcoholics who are poor from the liquor store, does it? It's an obvious attempt to make voter fraud easier.

Is this saying it is easy for everyone to get an ID? Is this saying records are all digitized in the system?

Why did it take six months for me to renew my drivers license in 2004? I had a birth cert, expired Drivers license, all name changes were legal.

Oh my social security card had my birth name on it and my grandparents had changed their name before records were digitized. The Patriot act makes it difficult

A person who can only think in one dimension is limited in knowledge.

One cannot deny the rush to Voter Suppression

They are subliminally telling us that they need votes from those who are too lazy and apathetic to get off their butts and go get an ID that will probably cost about as much as a pack of smokes to obtain.

They rely on a reactionary, uninformed populace to vote them in.

Forget about fraud, does any one really want to make it easy for ignorant, uninformed and lazy people to vote? Rights come with at least minimal responsibilities.

It's funny that we used to have to show an ID to vote before, and nobody seemed to care then. I find no problem with it.

They'll try anything to avoid having to get ID. How will the dead and Mickey Mouse be able to vote for them if they have to show ID? They'd have to go to a lot more trouble to commit fraud then.

no, if you listen carefully, they are telling you that a picture ID is not a requirement for registered voters to vote. Not every registered voter has a picture ID...I can't see what's so difficult to understand about that...it's not NASA science......