What is wrong with requiring a picture ID to vote?

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85. What if pigs could fly? In states where photo ID is required there are costs imposed now.

$15 can be a serious barrier to older people on a fixed income, or to poor people. You will say that they should be willing to pay for the right to vote, but why should we create that barrier? There is no evidence whatsoever that people steal one another's ballots. No evidence of voter fraud caused by lack of photo ID.

The photo ID laws are simply a way of suppressing the vote among people who tend to vote Democratic, ie, poorer people. The costs and barriers associated with such laws are extensive. They include the fact that many people can't put their hands on their original birth certificates, many older people and poor people don't drive so they don't have driver's licenses, few poor people have passports, and without those types of ID it is virtually impossible to get a photo ID.