Michigan now requires voters to produce photo ID before voting in elections. It's a wonder that this step wasn't taken years ago. It's so common sense that it's ridiculous.
With all the reports of election irregularities over the last eight years, producing photo ID is a minor inconvenience. The election officials don't know who everyone is on sight and where they live, and for anyone to expect that is ridiculous.
And there are government issued IDs that the poor can acquire that are acceptable forms of identification as well. And if they don't want to obtain identification, they simply sign the form that says they are eligible to vote and they are who they say they are. So the argument that it's a discriminatory practice designed to suppress the economically downtrodden doesn't hold water.
The biggest problem lies with the training of poll workers, who did different things in the various precincts. There was some variance in the types of ballots that were issued: regular ballots should have been used for voters who signed the forms, but some provisional ballots were issued instead, which are treated differently and require further validation. Other poll workers rejected acceptable forms of ID, such as military-issued ID cards and Michigan driver's licenses, which is unfathomable.
Uniformity was present yesterday, but not in all the precincts.
There are definitely glitches to work out of the new system, but when they are worked out, it will make Michigan's voting system much stronger and more secure.
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