Voter ID: Bringing Poor Into Mainstream American Life

A Philadelphia Inquirer story every voter ID opponent should read.

Without [identification], you feel cut off, paralyzed,” Tucker tells me after waiting for two hours on the Ben Franklin Parkway Monday to see a mysterious Good Samaritan who covers the bureaucratic fees for IDs.


“Having an ID,” she says eagerly, “makes you feel whole again.” . . .


“HIV clinics can’t serve dying people without an ID. Methadone centers say the same thing,” explains Adam Bruckner, 36, of the homeless outreach Philly Restart.