Lauren Mayer: Voter ID Laws

The possibility of someone showing up to vote under an assumed name had never occurred to me until this election season, when Republicans just happened to uncover the danger of fraudulent voting.

And how odd that it apparently only happens in swing states!  And who cares that there isn’t any evidence of actual fraud so far?  It surely COULD happen, so isn’t that worth the potential disenfranchisement of lots of already marginalized voters?

Oh, so a sizeable percentage of people don’t have photo IDs and they’re expensive and inconvenient to obtain – isn’t waiting in line at a DMV part of the joy of citizenship?

Thinking about fake identities inspired me to turn into a faux blues singer to address this issue . . . .