Huffington post calls voter ID laws "Modern Day Poll Tax"

In what I found as a bizarre turn of events the Supreme Court Recently took up a case that will look at the legaility of requiring voters to present IDs to cast their ballots. I must admit I have never seen the issue in why this is such an outrageous requirement. People are asked to present picture IDs all the time for routine tasks. Matthew Segal wrote in an article for the Huffington Post made this claim, "The bill is tantamount to a modern day "poll-tax," that forces many eligible voters to pay for a government-issued photo ID." This is outrageous statment that is aimed at making this a racial issue when it is not one.

While it sounds nice to say this is a unfair requirement IDs are required pretty much to do anything in life these days. Many states actually require the possession of such an ID for identification purposes. I do not see the problem with requiring an ID to vote. It is not a shocking statement to say that there are some people here in America that do not follow the rules. What is wrong with making sure the people who come to vote are who they claim to be. Mr Seagal claims, "One could argue that voter ID laws are more about partisan politics than cleaning up elections, as they primarily affect demographics that suggest a particular party affiliation." One could also argue that people are making an issue out of this because it gets in the way of commiting voter fraud. I firmly believe that the only reason people find this requirement out of line is because it gets in the way of thier attempts manipulate the election system.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-segal/we-card-hard-voter-id-_b_67927.html

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