No, Mike, I haven't lost sight of the original point it's just that Tamar brings forth a good thought about a required ID costing money is an equivalence to a poll tax.

As to the GOP playing games I have no doubts that it has been done selectively. OTOH, the Dems aren't lilly-white in this area as well; in fact, one could make a point that the more powerful and slimy political blocs in American history have been Democratic (Daley, LaGuardia, etc).

I wish the government would more stringently prosecute voter fraud regardless of who does it.

>Yes, it is, but let's not lose sight of the original point. Even though it's an idea that makes sense in theory -- why SHOULDN'T we want to verify that voters are legitimate? -- in practice it has been a tactic targeting demographics who tend to vote for the opposition. The Republicans have used this tactic extensively in the past two presidential elections and by all reports are gearing up to do the same this year. What they are doing isn't exactly illegal, it's just a slimy way of trying to skew the vote in their favor. If they really cared so much about the voting rights they like to trumpet they wouldn't work so hard to suppress votes. The key point is they are targeting specific groups of voters.