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[QUOTE="Headbanging_Man:1321660"]It's pretty much about making sure people who are so poor they don't have licenses or picture IDs cannot vote. As of now, I think a utility bill or paycheck covers it most places for first-time voters but the laws are getting stricter. I don't really know that it's defensible to have a system so wide open that all you have to do is walk up and state a registered voter's name to get a ballot, but clearly there's no big rush (at least since the decline of urban machine politics) of phony voters at the polls, and the new/incoming laws definitely have a discouraging effect on people exercising their rights. So technically there IS a gap in the law that could be abused, but the new laws are by their nature inclined to deter legal voting, not illegal voting. So far there's no law requiring people to generally "have identification when you're in public" in the U.S., nor should we ever accept one, but unfortunately we are headed that way. There's no Constitutional basis for for allowing legal authorities to force people to present papers merely for existing in the public sphere, but of course the Constitution hasn't played much into these things in the past 30 or so years. It's especially getting bad as regards the basic freedom to travel without harassment.[/QUOTE]
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