Originally Posted by
LittleFuzzy
Is it a terrible thing? No. Is it a waste of resources, attempting to fight a very small and largely irrelevant problems? Yes. Is it potentially problematic for a subset of legitimate current voters? Yes, that can almost be taken as a given for any additional requirements on anything. Are people taking positions on it for partisan reasons? Again yes, though those reasons should not be considered necessarily exclusive.
If we really wanted to combat voter fraud via id, while not disenfranchising any legitimate voters, then we should grant everyone in the country citizenship for the duration of a fairly extended implementation period, work WITH the public to get everyone their ids during that implementation period, and then move forward.