I just voted in Virginia and for the first time in my 44 years of voting was required to present a photo id. I am ashamed that my state has turned to this to try to suppress economically-depressed, elderly, minority and recent immigrant voters.
Virginia is a state that went to war trying to preserve human bondage. In my lifetime Virginia necessitated the United States Supreme Court decision (unanimous) Loving v. Virginia to overturn another of its outrageous practices, its anti-miscegenation laws.
Did the founding fathers carry photo ids? I'm thinking not, and they certainly didn't put a national id requirement into the constitution.
Papers, please. I'm not trying to cross a border into a foreign place where they don't like our way of life, I am here to exercise my fundamental right of voting in a democracy!
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