Republicans And Voter ID Cards
This morning on Iowa Public Radio the state GOP executive director was discussing the straw poll coming up in Ames. He said all voters will have to show an Iowa driver’s license and took the opportunity to reiterate the GOP goal of foisting such a requirement on voters in real elections by amending the voting laws.
If I heard him right, the interesting part was the reason this requirement has been added to the straw poll. It seems non-Iowans were coming all the way to Ames to cast votes even though this was not supposed to be allowed. Republicans were cheating in their own elections.
Their troubles hardly justify requiring new state laws that would reduce turnout, since such cheating in real elections is virtually unheard of.