Reply #153: I agree. But I would define as an illegitimate election one that made it

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so difficult and time consuming to register to vote that thousands of eligible voters lose the chance to vote.

If you read the statute above, it's not JUST that you need a state ID. In fact, there's a possibility that the post-'96 drivers licenses won't satisfy the law. And you also need to bring three more documents with you when you show up to vote.

And I DO think that having to have a state ID that you need to renew in order to register is too burdensome. Any legal voter who gets turned away just because they haven't purchased something, or forgot to renew something is being denied a very important right, and I think it's way more important that that one person gets to vote than it is to stop one non-citizen from voting.

And I'm willing to bet that the ration of non-citizens stopped: citizens denied the right to vote by this law is going to be at least 1:100.

What is wrong with requiring the oath?