yup

Absolutely

Yes I do believe they should. I have been asked for mine every time I go to vote. I never bothers me.

Yes, generally. Though there are places where that is superfluous, since everyone knows everyone. But in big cities it might stop dead people from voting quite so often.

yes,definitely

Only if the States are willing to foot the bill for a 'voter id' that could be obtained at the polling places by those providing suitable I.D., such as birth certificates, utility bills, bank statements, mortgage statement, etc. for those that do not have other suitable I.D. What's so tough about getting a picture I.D.? Well, if you're poor, they often cost a decent amount of money. Also, you have to get them from the DMV, which are sometimes few and far between. If you're a senior citizen, for example, and don't drive, how do you get there? Polling places are usually fairly close to voters. Here's a stat for Georgia from 2005: "In 2005, Georgia state legislators passed a bill requiring voters to present either a driver's license or a state-issued photo ID that costs between $20 and $35 and is available only from Department of Motor Vehicles offices. Supporters claimed this was necessary to keep people from casting votes in someone else's name, even though Georgia secretary of state Cathy Cox noted that her office had no evidence of this happening. Either way, the measure is likely to have a dramatic effect on who can vote. Two-thirds of the state's counties don't even have a DMV office; Atlanta, the state's largest city, has just one, where waits at the ID counters often run to several hours. In late June, the secretary of state issued a report finding that more than half a million active-status, registered voters in Georgia don't have valid photo IDs. Fully 17.3 percent of African American voters, and one-third of black voters over age 65, wouldn't be able to cast a ballot under the law. When the federal Department of Justice had five experts examine the ID legislation in 2005, four of them objected to it, as the Washington Post discovered. But higher-ups at Justice overruled them and the measure (pushed by conservative think tanks such as the American Center for Voting Rights) went on the books. In October of last year a judge blocked its implementation, and the law -- along with another version that offers free voter IDs -- remains in limbo as appeals continue." http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/09/just_try_voting_here.html This statement includes a provision about free identification, and I honestly just can't come up with any reason why anyone should be opposed to a voter card if it were provided free of charge, with my already stated caveat of making it available at the actual polling place. Voter Fraud is the reason for this brouhaha, supposedly, but statistics show that in person fraud has never been a problem. It's the absentee votes that have proved fraudulent. While keeping things honest, we should also be making it easier for people to vote, not harder.

I have to agree with Taylor, here. If the government foots the bill, and makes it easy to obtain by those who are poor, elderly, don't drive, etc...then by all means. However, as stats do show, it's absentee voting that's the problem....not voting in person. I have legal I.D. and don't mind showing it. I live in a big city, and I have more than one DMV close by.

I do indeed. You can't buy a pack of cigarettes or alcohol in a lot of locations without picture ID. Is there really a problem with requesting verification to participate in the election process? I don't think so.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

You have to show ID to do so many other petty things like drinking, why shouldn't we have to show ID in order to do the most important thing?