CNN blogs on photo identification election requirements and Heritage Scholar Hans Von Spakovsky points to the bipartisan report by the Commission on Federal Election Reform for support of the law.  While the left-leaning media often provide a platform to the minority that are radically opposed to photo identification, they rarely bring up that the Supreme Court majority and the bipartisan Commission endorsed the idea as an necessary improvement in election administration.  The media also ignores the fact that the Department of Justice has already established precedent by the preclearance approval of various other ID laws in states and are now intent on simply ignoring the law and this precedent.  As they conform to the political dictates of the Obama Administration, DOJ is looking for ways to delay and object to these new photo ID laws.  

Von Spakovsky cited the 2005 report by the Commission on Federal Election Reform,
headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State
James Baker, which said, “The electoral system cannot inspire public
confidence if no safeguards exist to deter or detect fraud or to confirm
the identity of voters. Photo IDs currently are needed to board a
plane, enter federal buildings, and cash a check. Voting is equally
important.”

Before photo identification was deemed by the Left to be a return to Jim
Crow discrimination laws and outright suppression of minority voters, the Commission on Federal Election Reform recommended a Real ID photo ID card for voter identification. The Commission report suggested
that the outreach and education process of providing these free ID’s would actually enfranchise more
voters.  This sounds like a familiar argument and accurately reflects the increase in turnout found in Georgia and Indiana.  Ultimately, the Supreme
Court cited to this bipartisan report in much of its analysis upholding
the constitutionality of the Indiana photo identification law.