WRAL-TV has a lengthy news report tonight on the upcoming controversy about requiring NC voters to show a photo ID each time they vote. The viewer may think a legislative proposal has already been filed but the NC General Assembly doesn’t begin until January 26; the reference in the WRAL report is to a bill filed in 2009 that is now dead. Also, the 27 states referenced in the report include those that accept a wide variety of non-photo ID documents or, if none is produced, a signed statement affirming the voter’s identity. North Carolina law requires voters to sign such a statement; lying amounts to committing perjury, a felony offense. Only two states – Georgia and Indiana – require voters to show a government-issued photo ID each time they vote.
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I believe it is prudent for the state of NC to insist that a voter photo ID be provided when an individual votes. This is the same requirement used to cash a check. Surely similar precautions are prudently used to insure the sanctity of the voting process. How many illegal aliens have phony social security numbers? Surely we all want valid citizens voting and not illegals. What the other states do or not do is not pertinent to what we do in North Carolina.