[TheRealVille]

This is just about as ridiculous a statement as I have read on here and I've seen some doozies. Evidently you've never voted or bought a gun. Republican leadership offered to make social security cards a photo ID that people would use for identification purposes at the polls (free of charge). I assume you have one of those? At any rate, I've shown my driver's license before I voted. As well as having to fill out a voter registration before I was allowed to vote when I turned 18. People who aren't even US citizens are voting with out benefit of having been preregistered or even in possession of any form of ID. Why do you suppose Democratic leadership has opened the floodgates for illegal immigration

The background checks are pretty extensive to buy firearms. Buyers have to fill out forms that include a lot of personal information and show an ID. That information is then cross checked at the state level against their data base. If you don't check out you wait to buy a gun or possibly get denied the privilege.

So, to say it's easier to buy a gun than to vote is laughable. But, not as laughable as saying there is some financial benefit for the right to enforce voter ID laws. nicker:

A novice might might pick up your subtle misleading here. Were you required to show your driver's license, when voting? Was that vote cast in KY? At any rate, why make people show an id, as in person vote fraud is almost non existent, as the total voting population goes. You guys can side step it all you want, but you know there is only one reason to require photo ids, to keep certain classes(blacks, hispanics, elderly, and young people)that might have a better chance of having a photo id, from voting. Republicans might be able to bullshit some, but most people know the real reason for id laws. Those you wish to show photo id vote for democrats, and this is just another way to steal election you know republicans can't win. The same goes with redistricting.