[ScottinVA]

Having a photo ID should be mandatory in every state. This is a basic common-sense matter.

[phillyfanatic]

This is such a common sense idea that of course liberal Dems do not like it. They would lose the prison, illegal, walking around money voters and others because they would not have legal ID. The Dems would always hit ....Jim Crow Laws, or Nazi Germany or South Africa and label it an American wish of the Pubs. Good Lord, I despise these lunkheads since old fashioned common sense of Yankee ingenuity seem so lacking in their philosophical under-pinnings .

[JrsyJack]

but critics argue the move would open the door to discrimination.

It should be discriminatory, only those that are legally entitled to vote should be allowed to do so.

[Mariner]

In California all you have to do is "claim a name" and if it's on the voter rolls, you're voting.

I do not believe ID is required to register either.

[JoeFromSidney]

Voting rights advocates acknowledge most people already need identification to get by in society, but they contend that voting is different.

Yes, voting is different. It's one of the most important acts of a citizen. It's the citizen's participation in the "power of the rods and the axe." People should have to prove who they are to exercise that power.

[diji]

I am always amazed at how many weak arguments can be presented to stall voter i.d. requirements.