Why is an ID mandate for voting such a problem?

[AverageOldGuy]

8. The problem is NOT the idea of an ID to vote.

The problem is HOW TO GET THE ID.

I recently moved but before then I lived 18 years in a rural VA county where i served 13 years on the county electoral board. As far as I know, every state has some form of ID requirement for voting.

The problem comes in obtaining that ID. Half the population does not have a passport. I was surprised when I found out how many people do not have a copy of their birth certificate, marriage license, or other documents that I take for granted. Adding to the problem of not having any of these fundamental documents is HOW DO YOU GET A COPY OF your birth cert, marriage license, etc.? Mail order? Online order? I recently ordered extra copies of our birth certs and marriage license -- $60 total -- who has $60 lying around..

Another matter is WHAT CONSTITUTES AND ACCEPTABLE ID? In Virginia, Republicans want to disallow the use of a student ID for voting even though the ID is issued by a state entity -- college or university and is legal for other purposes.

An earlier commenter said this:

Back in I want to say 2015, Alabama passed a voter ID law. Then within a year, shut down every dmv in counties that where the majority population was a minority. It left some people having to drive over 160 miles one way in order to get an ID in order to vote. It was so bad that the conservative heavy supreme court struck down the law as being too racist.

Next, look at Texas. When they passed their voter ID law, the banned IDs that democrats are more likely to have (college IDs), while allowing IDs that conservatives are more likely to have (hunting license).

And that's the problem -- it's not the idea of an ID, it's (1) how to get the ID, and, (2) what ID is acceptable.