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Most non-Republican legislators (as well as a lot of Republicans) tend to agree that a photo ID isn't necessary, so feel to free to call me an insane mentally retarded moron, but at least I'm not the only one.

Here's a good article that questions the necessity of voter photo ID laws. It concerns one of the judges who first framed/upheld the voter photo ID law: http://www.thenation.com/blog/176641/ju ... t-it-wrong

But you probably won't read it, unfortunately.

Here's a quick excerpt:

In his new book, Reflections on Judging, Judge Posner writes, “I plead guilty to having written the majority opinion (affirmed by the Supreme Court) upholding Indiana’s requirement that prospective voters prove their identity with a photo ID—a law now widely regarded as a means of voter suppression rather than fraud prevention.”

Judge Posner, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, is not stopping there.

In an interview, Mike Sacks asked: “Do you think that the court got this one wrong?”

“Yes,” replied Judge Posner. “Absolutely. And the problem is that there hadn’t been that much activity with voter identification…. [The Seventh Circuit judges] weren’t really given strong indications that requiring additional voter identification would actually disfranchise people [who are] entitled to vote.”