Regarding "Voter ID law goes to court" (Page A1, Tuesday), the goal of the Voting Rights Act is to give equal access to voting for all citizens and to remove the obstacles that were designed to keep poor people of color from voting. People disguise this effort as a means of stopping voter fraud, but it looks and smells too much like the past when the goal was to keep a certain group of people from voting. If the issue is about making sure that the person registered meets the legal criteria to be a voter, then maybe the overall registration process needs to be changed rather than to slap on some requirements that specifically exclude a large number of people. If the goal is to match a face to the voter registration card, then any photo ID should be good, including a student ID, which the current law does not allow. If you cannot prove you're of legal age, you cannot purchase cigarettes; if you cannot prove you are an American citizen, you cannot vote in an American election. Regarding "What fraud?" (Page B6, Wednesday), in response to the letter writer who did not see how the ID law will put an undue burden on most people, that is probably true. [...] I'm glad that they ask voters for a picture ID at the voting locations.
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