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badgenome said:
Mr Khan said:

We've tread this ground before, but in Pennsylvania they're really not making it much easier.

That's a problem for people in Pennsylvania, then. So far the courts don't seem to agree, but I guess we'll see where the Supreme Court comes down.

I don't know how common actual ballot manufacturing and the like is as opposed to voter regsitration fraud, but if it helps to improve the integrity of the vote then it just doesn't seem all that burdensome or unreasonable to me in a society where you need a photo ID to do practically anything. And the fact that a Democratic legislature and independent governor in Rhode Island passed voter ID kind of takes the steam out of the kneejerk "it's bad, because Republicans" argument.

Also doesn't help that nearly 75% of the country is for voter id laws.

Hell, even a clear majority of Democrats are for Voter ID laws... specifically voter ID laws that require government issued photo ids no less!

Different minorities, different ages, NO GROUP is against government photo IDs being needed by a majority.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/08/12/National-Politics/Polling/question_6226.xml?uuid=Nd4PSOTWEeGXOe75nF-yhQ

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-concerns-about-voter-fraud-spur-broad-support-for-voter-id-laws/2012/08/11/40db3aba-e2fb-11e1-ae7f-d2a13e249eb2_story.html

Voter ID laws are just widley popular common sense laws.

Hell, even noncitizens s