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I think that's a mischaracterization of the position.
Is it?
For the photo ID, I think almost all Dems would agree to photo ID -I assume you mean for voting- if photo IDs were available for free. Reps usually balk at that. Also, on TMF, one poster who lived in Michigan actually volunteered to help poor people get photo IDs. It's not just black folks, but poor people in general. Often they didn't have their birth certificates, couldn't easily afford to get a certified copy, etc. He helped them with all of that. It's a lot more common than you appear to realize (and more common than I realized until I interacted with that poster on TMF).
Actually most red states that require voter ID already have this. And on TMF, it was the left who vociferously opposed the idea. Ramsfanray even would go and invent corner cases like "What about the 100 year old guy whose birth certificate burned up in a fire in 1920" or some such thing.
All of us...100% in favor.
Besides, most - and by most I mean 99% of the population - has photo ID.
Blue states will give photo IDs out to illegal aliens but for some reason don't want actual citizens to be required to have them. Go figure.
