I agree. But the truth is, you need ID to do just about anything nowadays. What has changed?
I find it disturbing that people are OK with showing ID to deliver pizza in an office building but not to vote.
Of course I agree with you. But what changed, I think, is the possibility of datamining. With computers. Control over the population is easy with the kind of data being taken in all the time with everything we do --- and not just showing ID; if you shop with a credit card or bank card, they know exactly who you are and have you on record forever after that.
The voting thing is crazy, of course, and mainly is facilitating illegal votes, and that is really what it is for, IMO. The Dem idea is that blacks are too stupid to get IDs, but that isn't really true: they have to have IDs to drive or go into hospitals or anything, really, same as the rest of us.