Former U.S. Marine Turned Away From TN Poll For Refusing to Present Photo ID Under New GOP Law

[jeff47]

49. You are forgetting to add in the price of getting to the DMV

It isn't free to get there, especially when you have to take time off work and arrange for someone to transport you to the DMV.

I still dont see the problem with having to prove who you are to vote.

Because you have decided to disenfranchise people because they are poor. There's a reason poll taxes were enacted, and there's a reason they were declared unconstitutional. The ID requirement is another poll tax.

I thought chicago had a documented problem with nonliving voters

There's all sorts of claims about the Chicago "machine" stuffing ballot boxes. None have been proven. Considering the ease of proving a dead person voted, there would be several documented cases by now if the claims were true.

The only cases I'm aware of fall into two categories:
1) Someone voted absentee and died between mailing their ballot and election day.
2) The poll worker accidentally marked "John Smith, Sr" when "John Smith, Jr" voted. Or similar mismarking of the sign in sheet at the polls.

If all I need is a bill, and a voters id card I could go vote for all the males in my family who dont bother to do it themselves.

You may find the poll workers will be a tad suspicious when the same person comes in multiple times using different names.