Voter ID isn't necessarily a bad idea on its own. But the context of its recent history in the US is important. All of the recent voter ID efforts in the US hav

Voter ID isn't necessarily a bad idea on its own. But the context of its recent history in the US is important. All of the recent voter ID efforts in the US have been using it as the cornerstone of a transparent effort to disenfranchise eligible voters, and its proponents are consistently dishonest about their motives and the effects that voter ID would have. Those despicable efforts have thoroughly tainted the entire idea of voter ID, for years to come. There's no innocent way to bring it up. Anyone who proposes or supports voter ID in the US these days is immediately suspect, and should be regarded as either a racist or politically ignorant and tone-deaf, until proven otherwise.