Write an argumentative discussion about the given passage. VOTER PHOTO ID “Everybody needs an ID. You need one to cash a

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Write an argumentative discussion about the given passage.
VOTER PHOTO ID
“Everybody needs an ID. You need one to cash a check or do
almost anything. They’re not hard to get, and if we want to stop
voter fraud it makes perfect sense to require a photo ID for
voting.”
That’s essentially the argument made by the Texas legislature
when they passed SB 14, the Texas photo ID law, in 2011. And it’s
the argument made today.
Gov. Abbott says we need the photo ID law to combat “rampant”
fraud.
Others say the idea that the only real reason to pass SB 14 was
to limit voting by disadvantaged populations, including especially
poor, elderly and minority voters, all of whom tend to vote for
Democratic candidates in larger proportions than the general
population. In fact, five times recently, federal judges have found
that the Texas law requiring photo ID was discriminatory - that it
violated the constitutional requirement of "equal protection of the
laws." The most recent finding, in fact, held that the Texas
legislature had intentionally discriminated.
These opponents of the law say Voter ID is “a solution in search
of a problem.” There’s essentially no fraud occurring, so passing
laws and creating bureaucracies to fix fraud is itself a fraud.
Opponents also dismiss the argument that goes: "You have to have
a photo ID to open a bank account, buy beer, get a
drivers license, etc." The most common counterargument is that
none of those things is a constitutionally protected right,
but voting is, so the comparison is invalid.What do you
think?
Before you answer, please do what I always suggest, and “Take a
step back, take a deep breath, and think!” Think beyond what might
seem to you like the easy obvious answer, whatever you think that
easy obvious answer is.
Think about what justifies legislatures in passing bills that
everyone has to follow and that cost millions of taxpayer dollars.
Should supporters of the voter ID policy be expected to demonstrate
that fraud exists in numbers sufficient to justify the cost of
implementing the legislation? Since we know that some number of
people will be and have been kept from exercising their
constitutional right to vote by this legislation, should that fact
enter into calculation of the cost?
And remember that not everyone lives in an urban area where
resources are all around us, making it easy to do seemingly simple
things like get a copy of a birth certificate, which could be
required documentation for getting one of the IDs that qualify for
voting.