What is wrong with requiring a picture ID to vote?

[Rozlee]

45. My mother never had one, neither did my three maiden aunts.

They always cashed their social security checks and all personal checks at their local banks or general stores that had done business with them for years. That's the way it was in many rural communities. They used their social security cards or even baptismal certificates for IDs. I only used my Social Security card and high school diploma to get in the Army 38 years ago. When my sister and I--we're both retired nurses--were discussing voter ID--she told me that when she contracted for a nursing home/independent living conglomerate, a shuttle would often take the residents shopping, visiting relatives and sometimes to those check-cashing places. They accepted DD Forms 214, Social Security cards, resident utility bills, the independent living address they were at, in any event, without photo ID's, they needed at least 3 forms of other proof of identity or verification. I take it they didn't extend the courtesy to many, but they'd see the shuttle idling outside the business and the manager wanted that extortionist fee for cashing their personal checks. It's all very alien to me, having only dealt with elderly military retirees and their military IDs who live at the local Air Force Village and go the commissary and PX in their plush shuttle. I guess one way we could scare off teabaggers from wanting voter ID would be to tell them everyone would need to get micro-chipped. With their fear of the Anti-Christ and the Mark of the Beast, maybe they'd back down.