Voter ID legislation is sure to be one of the most important issues lawmakers address in the upcoming session. A December 2010 Civitas Institute Poll found 83 percent of respondents favored a law that requires voters to show government-issued photo identification before voting. For those of you who’d like a primer on how the left skews its claims and uses faulty research to oppose voter ID legislation, read an op-ed in Sunday’s Fayetteville Observer by Civitas’s own Susan Myrick. Susan is one of only a few people working in North Carolina working on this critical issue. Good work Susan!
As a poll worker in the 2010 elections I found it very helpful when people presented an ID. There are names that are hard to spell and some people do not speak clearly. An ID sure speeds things along with the registration. I did find that the democrats seldom presented any id and the republicans were all shocked that they didn’t actually have to have one.