Reply #8: You would have to go door to door in some very bad neighborhoods

[roseBudd]

and you would have to cover an awful lot of ground because even though the cities would be most fruitful there are poverty stricken no ID having people who don't own cars in the rural areas. Just because someone like me isn't scared of anything and walks around some very bad neighborhoods without a second thought doesn't mean there are enough of me to accomplish something like this. I often said if you are a dope boy standing on the corner selling crack I still want your vote for Kerry and I harassed the dope boys relentlessly to vote. Photo ID is the GOP's idea and the reason is suppression.

I lived in government subsidized housing for many years and the poor truly do live very chaotic lives, often resulting in eviction and sometimes having everything they own on the sidewalk. As a person who grew up middle class it was very difficult to understand the living conditions and the choices the poor made. They very often stay at rather than live somewhere. When they move from place to place their belongings in garbage bags I don't think keeping track of their birth certificate is a high priority. If they don't have ID how will they prove who they are? Photo ID requires equipment. Currently photo ID comes from DMVs and they are not open late or not always accessible to people who don't drive.

Voter fraud is not the problem, election fraud is. Most voter fraud occurs with absentee ballots and where are the safeguards for absentee voting? Maybe I'm just a dem vote whore and I want the homeless, the dopeboys, people with low IQ, etc. voting because I know they are likely democratic voters.

When I registered voters everyone knew the last 4 digits of their social, their birth date and they signedthe card. If those 3 things match it is highly likely this person is who they say they are and highly unlikely they are someone who has memorized someone else's info and has the ability to forge the signature on election day. This is a problem the GOP has invented out of whole cloth.