What is wrong with requiring a picture ID to vote?

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68. For people on a fixed income or minimum wage job $15 is a lot

Here in Florida a state ID card is $25 and has to be renewed for the same price every so many years (six, I think but I cannot find the info online right now). In addition, you have to provide a certified copy of your birth certificate - if you are born in Florida that costs about $10; your Social Security card; proof of name changes (for married or divorced women that means copies of each marriage license and divorce decree); and proof of residence.

For many elderly who were born at home, there may not be a birth certificate. For some (such as my mother) there could be errors when the birth records were transcribed to computers. (Mom had a four year battle to get her birth date corrected after some clerk typed '22' instead of '21'. Until that was done she could not renew her driver's license or get a state ID. It also interfered with here receiving her Social Security and Medicare.)

So in Florida it is a minimum of $35 to get the state ID. On top of that it takes time not only to go in to apply but to collect the needed documentation. For someone working a minimum wage job with no vacation time, just getting time to get to the DMV office costs them wages IF they can arrange the time to go at all.

If we need photo ID in order to vote, why don't we put pictures on our VOTERS CARDS and provide them for FREE?