Not saying voter fraud doesn't exist, just saying that it is total BS to pretend that these ID laws are about preventing voter fraud when they are VERY clearly about preventing certain groups from voting. Again, the law doesn't bother me nearly as much as the dishonesty does. No matter how you slice it, it will prevent approx 10% of the population from voting when the voter fraud rate is reportedly around 0.0002%. So, Republicans need to smugly accept their victory for what it is and stop with the pretending.

also what would keep someone from getting a list of the dead from lets say the las year or two and going around to different districts claiming to be one of the dead and casting a vote for them ?? i mean how long does it take for the eligible voters list to be updated after a person has died ? to act as though voter fraud does not exist you really would have to be an absolute idiot.

sure it does taint. this whole voter fraud thing is all about assuring that only u.s. citizens are the ones voting. excluding felons of course. personally i believe than no one on government assist should be allowed to to voter either ( and no i am NOT reffering to vets or the elderly who have paid their dues and have it coming to them ) - to me that is kind of like asking a room full of drunks to vote on whether or not they should get more free vodka.....

I don't care if IDs are required or not, but let's not pretend this has anything to do with preventing voter fraud.

Herman is drawing a City paycheck to ignore the "purity of the ballot box" language in the State Constitution. Tenn. Const. Art. IV, § 1 (2012) Sec. 1. Right to vote -- Election precincts -- Military duty. Every person, being eighteen years of age, being a citizen of the United States, being a resident of the State for a period of time as prescribed by the General Assembly, and being duly registered in the county of residence for a period of time prior to the day of any election as prescribed by the General Assembly, shall be entitled to vote in all federal, state, and local elections held in the county or district in which such person resides. All such requirements shall be equal and uniform across the state, and there shall be no other qualification attached to the right of suffrage. The General Assembly shall have power to enact laws requiring voters to vote in the election precincts in which they may reside, and laws to secure the freedom of elections and the purity of the ballot box.

The US Supreme Court has already ruled that voter ID laws ARE constitutional. These people are just re-enforcing stereotypes that some people are just too d8mn stupid to get a photo ID. That, or they are just trying to cheat.