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The Republican doctrinaires who insist that Colorado voters have photo-identification cards are at it again.
They've set in motion a House bill that promises an expensive and wrong-headed solution to a problem that doesn't exist. They've dug up an old bogeyman, "vote fraud."
One of the bill's primary backers is Secretary of State Scott Gessler. Gessler is, by law, Colorado's chief elections officer and someone who ought to be encouraging more people to vote rather than fewer.
Now if this identity-card system were to become law, of course, a voter could simply show election judges a driver's license or other government-issued photo card. But the sad fact is that a significant number of eligible voters, notably the young, old and members of minority groups, do not have such a thing.
Yes, they could spend time and money to get one. They shouldn't have to.
The driving force behind this "identity" campaign is pure, hidebound Republicanism. And it is not really aimed at voter fraud. That's a lie; there's no such significant fraud nowadays..
This campaign, in fact, is aimed deliberately by white-bread conservatives at discouraging the vote of as many as possible of old, young and minority-group people who historically go Democratic.
That's as plain as the noses on their white faces.