Follow-up on the Voter ID thing...

Here's a very different article with a very different view of the facts about the Voter ID law and why it seems to be supported by the majority of Americans. It's simply astounding how two articles can say such totally different things about one law and it's implications/reasons. This article takes a much less alarming approach, pretty much dispelling the ideas that all these people will be unable or unwilling to make the changes needed to vote, and actually cites examples of where it has improved voter turnout.

Some interesting quotes

The NAACP has asked the United Nations to intervene to block state voter ID laws. It may have an ulterior motive for opposing ballot security measures. An NAACP official was convicted on 10 counts of absentee voter fraud in Tunica County, Miss., in July. 

In Georgia, black voter turnout for the midterm election in 2006 was 42.9 percent. After Georgia passed photo ID, black turnout in the 2010 midterm rose to 50.4 percent. Black turnout also rose in Indiana and Mississippi after photo IDs were required.

"The most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in the African-American community is the wholesale manufacture of ballots at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt," Mr. Davis said. "Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too mentally impaired to function cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights." - Arthur Davis (Former Democratic African American representative from Alabama.

Of 1.3 million new registrations ACORN turned in in 2008, election officials rejected 400,000.

With how different the articles are, it's hard to really believe either is 100% accurate...but still worth checking the other side of things. Keep reading and be smart for yourselves.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/27/why_americans_support_voter_id_laws_112546.html