Still wondering why voter I.D. cards aren't issued to Americans yet. It pretty much eliminates the illegal vote and you need an I.D. for everything else. I just don't get how that makes it 'harder' to vote. India has voter I.D. cards and it has over a billion people. Strange.
it is not as easy as it sounds.
Depending on your PoV, you may or may not think they are necessary in the first place. Anyways, either state by state or the Fed gov would have to make up laws for it,(lots and lots of laws), you would have to make the ID cards which would be hard,(and make sure people cant make illegal copies), and you would have to make it EASILY accessible for everyone to get. The moment it becomes hard for people to get their ID, you start to disenfranchise people. and their are arguments against ID cards as they hurt the *insert group here* more than your average person. They wouldn't have the time, ability to, and possibly other stuff prevents them from ever getting an ID when they normally could and did legally vote in the past.
You cant charge people to pay for the IDs either,(would basically be another poll tax) so either the state or the Fed would have to eat the very expensive cost. some States, for one reason or another have a hard time even having enough polling places due to costs.(so they say anyways) If they cant get enough polling places to allow people to vote in a reasonable amount of time,(no one should have to wait an hour, let alone 3+ hours) how will they afford this expensive change? I already hate going to the DMV, imagine doing this and having to wait even longer.(in some states you have to make an appointment to go to the DMV, possibly the same here)
anyways, these are some of the possible issues. there may be other points i didnt address here. Perhaps you or others would be able to handle the above questions if it came to making voting IDs required. i hope anyways you can at least understand some of the issues above, even if you disagree with them or think they are minor.
