Voter ID would be the end of the Dems.
Not only does Pres. Trump want voter ID, but consider the following …
Patriots have until 2020 to work with their state officials to iron out predictable problems with enforcing Section 2 of 14th Amendment — legal fights, activist judges, etc..
Problems also including expense and issue of possible smart, scannable citizenship / photo ID cards to address problem of Democratic voting officials with “poor" eyesight.
Noting that subsequent voting-related amendments to the Constitution have effectively modified Sec. 2 of the 14th Amendment, please consider the following.
Sec. 2 was made to address House of Representatives-related voting fraud by state actors, a concern evidenced the ongoing political party cold war of the Civil War.
”14th Amendment, Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens [emphasis added] twenty-one years of age in such State."
Note that Sec. 2 clearly indicates that only citizens are allowed to vote, the remedy for violating Sec. 2 also clearly indicating to that only citizens can vote.
Also note that even though 14A made the former slaves citizens, the states uniquely have the power to decide who voted regardless of citizenship. It wasn’t until the states ratified the 15th Amendment, 14 & 15 ratified under very questionable circumstances, that male freedmen had the power to vote.
Again, regardless what activist judges have been saying about voter ID, based on Sec. 2, I believe that states are obligated to allow only citizens to vote, Sec. 2 and its remedy sadly still applicable to modern elections, that section practically necessitating that citizens present a valid citizenship / photo ID card before being allowed to vote.
Corrections, insights welcome.