I grew up in a poor, predominantly black inner-city. I and everyone I knew had an ID card, if not just to buy alcohol. People who don't participate in our soci

I grew up in a poor, predominantly black inner-city. I and everyone I knew had an ID card, if not just to buy alcohol. People who don't participate in our society enough to acquire basic documentation required for not living on the streets are overwhelmingly not interested in voting (this accounts for a sliver of the roughly half of the nation that didn't bother to participate in the last presidential election.) If you have the means and will to visit a poll booth, you have it to get an ID, unless there are legitimately disqualifying circumstances. If you believe this isn't the case, you should be lobbying explicitly to get these people ID's more easily, not to remove the requirement at the poll booth. This documentation is already required for virtually everything else; these (hypothetical) people need your help.