>>>>Because many of them don't have such an ID (turns out about 10% of PA voters have neither a drivers license nor the state-provided non-drivers photo ID). Getting such an ID can be expensive (both in actual costs and in work hours lost), difficult and time-consuming.
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>>>>And why should a person who has voted at the same polling place for decades, and is known to the poll workers (who are, of course, her neighbors), now need a photo ID?
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>I see. Everyone has an id card in Belgium so that's not a problem.
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>>Belgium is an almost entirely white nation. That is the ugly, ugly elephant in the room.
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>Mike, you obviously never have been to Belgium did you? Cities like Antwerp and Brussels are anything but ethnic homogenous.

Walter and Jean, I stand corrected. No, I have not been to Belgium, although I would like to go.

I probably should have guessed. I know England and France have both had tension between natives and darker skinned immigrants.