It's the sort of thing that taxes should cover. IMHO

and you don't have to purchase fingerprints, they are passed to you naturally. Fingerprints would be extremely difficult to fake or manufacture.

Why not modernize...could generate some jobs.

So it really is a bit of an interesting conundrum..

There's been an awful lot of chicken counting in advance of ACA eggs hatching.. I for one have zero trust in insurance companies doing the right thing..

Signed the Norquist Pledge? I don't recall, perhaps you can refresh my memory.

Being able to see both sides does not mean the sides are equal or even imply which one I agree with if any.

a Poll Tax, and as such it would be illegal as all get out.
How much would 'you' pay for the right to vote?
I think that is why the ID must be state provided.

Ont the other hand,,, I could be wrong you know.

Even if the ID is free, the birth certificate, marriage certificate, change of name, passport, etc., needed to secure a voter ID costs money--and it's the government that charges for those documents. There is no hardship waiver to get a birth certificate, etc. AFAIK.

it doesn't sound constitutional.

I can't seem to quite remember, but I think there is court precedent that looks down upon such laws no matter how they are dressed.

The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Right back to the "is it a tax" or "is it a mandat" BS

You know, the Teaparty party is really discusting.

requires the state to give the IDs free to low income people. Which is fine by me when I renew I will probably get a free id. I still don't like the law, but if they want to give me an id fine.

you just can't vote. Perhaps there's a work-around. What if I promise to vote for the republicans?

Welcome, Friend, walk on in!

if you have no approved state issued ID already. But then again, if you don't have a copy of your birth certificate available, you will have to get that before you get the ID.....and you will pay for the certified copy. But keeping that financial obligation one step away from the issuing of the ID makes it legal. I guess.

But you already know the answer to what you propose....the GOP has no problem with big government and mandates and spending your money. As long as it is for their own proposals.