One fact that is lost on many people who point out all the things you have to have an ID to do is that voting is a right, not a privilege. Buying alcohol, driving, flying and even cashing checks are privileges with no guarantee that you get to do them.
Voting is a right that is guaranteed by our national and state constitutions. Over 400,000 voters in North Carolina do not have state-issued IDs, most of them poor and/or elderly. Do we really want to deny these people their constitutionally guaranteed rights?
Gray Newman
