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...do the work for the little people. You see, a population often doesn't know what is good for itself - it needs wise liberal overlords. So, if you cheat a bit to get yourself into office, it's really just for the good of those poor, ignorant people who don't know enough to realize that they need you in office to benefit them. So, you see, it's all about helping the people who are too ignorant to know they need your help.

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They upheld the voter ID act in Arizona last year.
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...that is a losing issue for them (something like 70% opposed it in liberal New York).

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

At the same time she was campaigning for higher taxes, no doubt. Wonder how many property tax levies she campaigned for and voted for knowing she could just scam her way out of paying most of it by claiming two primary residences.
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I haven't heard of picture ID requirements suppressing, oh, cigarette or alcohol use. Come on. Don't parrot their lines that aren't based in fact and reason.

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I was told recently that prison release papers are acceptable as tobacco, and alcohol ID, even though they do not include photos. I wonder if prison release papers can be used at the voting both.

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as long as they're not felony release papers of course the dems probably want felons to be able to vote also.

1 Is there a voter fraud issue that this will correct?
2 Will this create a "poll tax" for anyone?

1. YES. See:

• Vote fraud in Miami's mayoral election in 1998
• Dead people voting in Washington State's gubernatorial election in 2004
• General vote fraud activities by ACORN

among others.

2. NO. A poll tax is an undue burden placed upon voters deliberately intended to stop certain people WHO ARE LEGALLY ALLOWED TO VOTE from not voting. The burden that voter ID laws create - to present valid ID - can hardly be construed as "undue".

...who is responsible for purging the list of people who have moved? Of people who have died? How good is the check when someone registers to begin with to ensure that they're a not only eligible to vote, but an actual real person?

In most jurisdictions the answer would be Nobody, probably nobody, and not very good.

When I go to my precinct, I sign under my printed name on that list.

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I find it hard to believe that someone would dumpster dive for my phone/electrical bills to use as my ID for one vote.

What does a utility bill have to being able to sign your name?

Now if you are talking about registration, it's pretty easy to get utility bills. You can easily make as many as you want yourself. Or if you really want someone else's legitimate bill, you can simply steal them from mailboxes. A bill from a given utility will be in lots of people's mailboxes on the same day. The criminals can drive down a street on that day and collect 50 of them. There is no need to look through any trash. Anyway, the big problem is a utility bill does NOT say whether you are eligible to vote. Aliens (legal and illegal) have utilities. Those bills also do NOT tell anybody whether you are the person whose name is on the bill.

In this state you don't even need a utility bill to register. You can just have someone vouch for you. That's even worse. And of course, once you are on the rolls you can vote in every election from then on out just by signing your name.

To my knowledge, need for such investigations (much like the rest of the country I understand) are pretty much nonexistent.

Because we don't care about enforcing the law. Only the most obvious cases of organized voter fraud are ever investigated, and even there they are usually just dropped or the perpetrator gets off with a slap on the wrist. We had a strip club owner here who lived in a small town and he more than doubled the population of the town with fraudulent registrations from his dancers and customers. Then he filled out and sent in absentee ballots for them. He got busted, because he was a total moron and his fraud was impossible to miss. I don't think he got any prison time. I know the dancers and customers who participated got no punishment at all. If he wasn't so clueless he would have gotten away with it.

I can only see that it will suppress probable Democratic voters

You need some kind of ID to participate in society. You can't even cash a government check without some kind of ID. The vast majority of people have these IDs. If they don't have them, they can easily get them. I don't see the problem.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman