What a crock of horse biscuits. My mother no longer drives, but she still has a photo ID. My wife has never had a driver's license, but she still has a photo ID.
And guess what else? I worked as a poll watcher in 2004. An 86 year old black man was proud of showing his photo ID to check in, even though it wasn't required. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he was only voting once . . . because he was a Republican.
I'm so tired of this horse manure. Minnesota has a permissive voter registration law because it used to be a rural state-- everybody knew everybody else. You couldn't get away with fradulent multiple voting if you tried. North Dakota has an even more permissive voter registration law-- just show up on election day and vote. It works fine there because it is still a rural state where everybody knows everybody else. Up until the 1960's, North Dakota didn't even require driver's licenses. Anybody over 16 already knew how to drive-- whether they learned on a pickup on their uncle's farm or a tractor on their father's farm. But this was hardly a model for the rest of the country to follow.
Neither is Minnesota's or North Dakota's voter law. Not requiring photo ID does, in fact, discriminate against real citizens casting real ballots.
I've lived in the same voting district since 1990 and have never been asked to show an approved identification.
I still always have my DL out and prepared to show it when I vote.
It's just the right thing to do to be prepared.