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CMV Voter ID laws restrict people from legally voting, and shouldn't be allowed.

Voter ID laws make it so poor people can't vote because they can't afford the cost of an ID. This is effectively a poll tax and shouldn't allowed. Voting is a constitutional right and everyone who meets the age and citizenship requirements to vote should be allowed to vote, regardless of if they can afford an ID. 

In addition, there is very little voter fraud happening in this country, and the rare cases that do exist do not justify keeping millions from voting. The small amount of fraud we have isn't good, but most of it wouldn't be stopped by a voter ID law, and it's not enough to swing elections.
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Let me give you a perspective from a non-US person: **it's very, very hard to understand the opposition to voter ID laws**. Most of the world has them. Just like most of the world has universal, government-run healthcare, and finds it baffling that the US does not. The US right opposes universal healthcare, and the US left opposes voter ID laws, but both are just basic common sense that the rest of the world has already implemented. Both the US right and US left seem irrational on these topics.

Why are voter ID laws common sense? Because voting is very important, it's the foundation of our entire political system. It's no more than being reasonable to expect people to vote only with a proper state-issued ID. Elections done right requires that only the eligible people vote, that they can vote in privacy, that the votes are not tampered with later, that counting is done in a monitored manner, and so forth. Voter ID laws are a part of such proper voting procedures.

Yes, for a poor person it is a little harder to get an ID - getting a half a day off of work to go to the DMV is more difficult, as is paying the small fee for getting it, compared to a rich person. But:

1. The solution to that is not to let people vote without ID, it's to fix getting one. Work to get the cost reduced to zero, and there are nonprofits that help poor people vote which you can donate to, etc.
2. For the vast majority of poor people, a half day off to go to the DMV, and a small fee, are not an insurmountable barrier, anyhow. Far bigger things limiting voter turnout are (1) voter apathy, (2) lack of a day off on voting day, which many countries have but the US does not, etc.

Instead, what has happened in the US is that there were some well-publicized cases of people that clearly should be able to vote, but didn't have an ID. They became symbols for the left, and the left is still fighting their fight, but it's an irrational one. Ignoring that history, looking at things objectively from outside the US, voter ID laws make sense.

edit: a further thing that matters a lot more than voter ID is that most US states do not allow prisoners to vote. If you really want to help the disenfranchised vote, that's probably the biggest issue right now.