AlabamAlum wrote:I don't know about other states, but to get a hunting license in Alabama, you have to use ID. With college IDs, you just have to be admitted to the school.
Free IDs are a small price to pay if this is an issue, but I don't know how big a problem it is nationally. I do know someone personally who places votes for all his non-voting relatives - which gives him 4-5 votes, and I know of someone on this board who votes for his mother.
I hate that politics is a part of the discussion. But there are people who look at this as a way to help their candidate - like some of the people who want to make it harder for overseas military to vote.
It's been a while since I applied to college...don't you usually have to provide some form of identification at some point in the admissions process? Like a SS card?
I suppose one could argue that a college ID can be faked, but I'm not sure why a fake hunting license would be any more difficult.
Voter fraud is a much bigger deal in the minds of some people than what the reality is. I'm trying to find the number of civil complaints about coting rights filed every year...best I could find was this
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/crcusdc06.pdf
On page three there's a chart showing that there are about 150-200 cases per year filed in federal courts alleging voting rights discrimination. I can't say how many were found for the plaintiff but that's significantly more instances than the actual documented cases of voter fraud people can't point to.
Anyways, forcing people to purchase some sort of "voting card" should be and ought to be illegal under the 24th amendment. It is just a poll tax by another name.