interesting

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by PaulS

The voter ID laws bother me less than the shortening of hours but minortities (a higher % vote Dem.) have less need for ID. The most common voter ID is a driver’s license, and minorities are less likely to drive. Minorities are less likely to have driver’s licenses because they are more likely to be poor and to live in urban areas. If you can’t afford a car, or if you don’t need one because you take the bus or subway, you are less likely to have a driver’s license. Students are less likely to have driver’s for the same reason. Driver’s licenses are not the only form of id, but minorities don't have as much access to other legally forms such as Passports, military IDs or other government-issued photo ID

"minorities don't have as much access to other legally forms such as Passports, military IDs or other government-issued photo ID"

Please explain, exactly, why minorities have less access to government-issued photo id's, than whites. It's not true just because you say it.

if the process for getting a photo id (other than driver's license) is the same for whites and blacks (and I have to believe it is the same), than why do blacks have "less access"? Please support your conclusion that minorities have less access to these ids? Based on what? What, exactly, reduces their access? Are all the places to get those ids, located in gated, white communities? Does the Klan run the offices where they are handed out? Are applicants required to name their favorite Bing Crosby song, or answer questions about fox hunting or falconry?