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human
ELI5:Why are people against voter id laws in the US?

It seems intuitive to me that people should need to prove their identity as a local resident citizen to vote. Why are people against these kinds of laws?

EDIT: Because it isn't easy for everyone to get an ID and voter fraud isn't common. Thanks for the explanation.
gpt
In-person voter fraud doesn't actually happen in any statistically significant way. Getting state-issued ID takes money and time which a person may not have, and in many places there's an excessive amount of travel required to get to a place which issues ID. People disenfranchised by voter ID laws are overwhelmingly poor and not white (people who are more likely to vote democrat, which is why most voter ID law supporters are republican).