The American Spectator reports on a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Reid after he requested that DOJ investigate states implementing voter identifcation verification measures.  

The letter noted that “the Rhode Island legislature, which has a majority of Democrats, passed voter ID legislation. Yesterday, Governor Lincoln Chafee, an independent and one of your former colleagues, signed the bill into law.  This law requires voters to show identification at the polls in 2012 and a photo before casting a ballot in 2014.
 
Senator Harold Metts (D – District 6, Providence), a minority and member of your political  party, was the sponsor of this voter ID bill in the Rhode Island Senate.  Confronted with communications about fraud at several Providence polling locations, he proposed a voter ID bill in Rhode Island.  He has said, “Fraud has gone unchallenged and ignored, and it must be stopped.”