Asking for Voter Identification

I read an article from the LA Times called,“Supreme Court will hear voter ID Case” by David Savage questions whether voters should show driver’s licenses or passports at the polls. Republicans believe this will prevent fraud. While Democrats argue it will deter voting of minorities, the poor, and elderly. Only a few states have adopted this including Indiana, Arizona, Georgia, Florida, and Missouri. The only problem for people, who agree with the ID, is that you cannot clearly prove the fraud that has decreased within voting or even whether it has stayed consistent or increased the number of ineligible voters.
I think this issue is especially important because of the presidential campaign right now. After the election of 2000 with Bush and Gore, voting has to be edited and more uniformed for all states, rather than an individual practice of each one. I remember a couple of weeks before Christmas break how Gwaltney had showed the class, the amount of suggestions that had been declared to make this problem not a big concern for future elections. Voting is a right, but there are too many ways where it can be manipulated and not represent the true opinion of a concerned American. The previous caucuses in Iowa and New Hampshire show that this presidential campaign is not predictable by any means, and if problems in voting don’t provide a justified election, fingers will be pointed from all angles not just two like the presidential election between Bush and Gore.