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Originally Posted by MaDef
That's because it's seen by the ACLU as a way to keep poor people (read black/minorities) from voting, and has it's roots in the civil rights movement.
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It doesn't help the pro voter ID cause that a great many of the current states enacting such ID laws are the same ones that enacted, in the past, discriminatory measures such as poll taxes and the like and were only stopped when the 24th Amendment was passed in 1964. If the major push had come in states not so tainted with prior discriminatory voter practices, the current debate may have been much less divisive...
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