No Voter ID Laws Because Millions Don’t Have an ID? Let’s Buy Them One!

A sign reminds voters they need photo ID to vote on Election Day at a polling station at Hillsboro Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 6, 2018. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Commentary

The prevailing narrative about why America shouldn’t institute voter identification requirements in all 50 states is the notion that it would unduly disenfranchise millions of voters who, supposedly, don’t have and are unable to obtain a valid form of ID.