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>>There's no doubt in my mind that the new law was put in place specifically to impede voting by poor people, old people, and minorities.
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>...and illegals and dead people. I also would'nt overlook the photo "registration" of the citizenry angle. In this day and age of increasingly advanced photo recognition software it strikes me as the upping the ante from fingerprinting.

writing from a country where you are obliged to carry a ID with photograph,
which twice recently has been enhanced to be prcessed automatically and needs special photographs,
Jake's upping the ante strikes familiar chords. And over here ID's get more expensive each time new features are added:
but as it will cost you more to be found without valid ID over the long run, these costs have to be paid by everybody.

Dead men voting probably is not that big an issue here and should not be in any vote.
Voting via mail will probably be tainted a bit, as some votes might not express the wish of the voter,
but the one able to hold the pen...

But in the long run I fear more for from processable individuals
than from spurious dead man voting as in the US.

my 0.0002$

thomas