Photo ID – Rightwing Fairy Tales

If you have laws that prevent cars from having wheels and tires you can prevent speeding.  But a law that prohibits cars from having wheels or tires makes about as much sense as laws requiring photo IDs.  There has not been a single instance of a person being convicted for voter impersonation in Tennessee.  Every instance of voter fraud involved voter registration issues, dead people voting (which, in most cases resulted from a person dying between the time the absentee ballot was mailed and the date of the election which was actually a legal vote), or people claiming to live in a precinct other than where they actually lived.  These are all problems relative to the management of the election process by local county election offices and have nothing to do with voter impersonation.  The forces behind the photo ID law are on record admitting that the purpose of this law is to reduce the numbers of Obama voters.  By any definition that is voter suppression and these laws have been overturned in almost every instance when brought to court.