Big problems w/ Voter ID, some were born w/o birth certificates, some have no proof of address

Many people, especially elderly African-Americans were born at home and birth certificates were not issued.

A voter ID requirement is problematic for them, period. Even if the ID is free, the paperwork to get the ID issued may be impossible or extremely difficult for these CITIZENS to get.

Second, people who are homeless or couch surfing, from place to place to place, may not have a permanent address (nor should they need one to vote as long as they are not voting in more than one place). Also, young people and college students, high school students living at home, may not have the necessary paperwork to prove that they live even in a permanent residence as they may not have bills establishing their residence.

If voter ID is going to be required, the only fair way is for the government to automatically and easily furnish whatever ID and or paperwork is necessary for one to exercise their constitutional rights to vote (remember, it's not a privilege) within a short period of time --and such should be valid even if the person moves frequently or has moved recently.

The last two times I missed out on voting were because of these sorts of issues.

1) I was working at Grand Canyon Arizona as a seasonal employee and wanted badly to vote in the primary for governor (hoping to get rid of Pete Wilson in 1994). Mail was so slow there that I couldn't get my absentee ballot in time and missed out.

2) So I quickly registered to vote in Arizona, but then I moved to Tucson as a student and just a few weeks, but too late to register for the primary in mid-September, again missing the opportunity to vote.

I was motivated to vote, registered to vote and yet, our system, easier then in many ways than now, was still too cumbersome to allow me to vote, and I lost out.

Our voting system has a lot of problems that make it too difficult too vote --whoever thinks it's too easy is kidding themselves.