respectfully, this issue is NOT a tempest in a teapot.
making sure that we have fair and legitimate elections is absolutely fundamental to our system of government.
the size of the federal govt. and out of control spending is of course serious and needs to be remedied as do all the other serious issues that are eroding our country.
Of course and there's a million way to do that. Photo ID is one way and there are other ways. We could argue that from now 'till Moses. Don't let the Left create these distractions from the potentially fatal gash in the hull of the Titanic caused by that government-iceberg. None of this stuff will matter once the Titanic is on the ocean floor.
Of course fair elections are important. But that's like repairing the window in your state room while the whole freaking ship is sinking. Once the Collectivist federal government has successfully established unlimited power and abolished the Constitution, do you think our squabble about voter ID will matter in the least? I don't think so.
If the Right doesn't stay focused, the Left and the MSM will happily take them down any road to keep the Right from focusing on cutting 80% of the federal government.
You are absolutely right. When elections are rotten, the end of the republic is at hand. And they are, so it is.