“Voter ID: Protecting the Integrity of our Elections”

Peter McGinley, a member of the Young Leaders Program at the Heritage Foundation, writes at The Foundry on the coming voter ID laws in the mid-term elections.
With midterm elections underway in Texas, the fight over voter ID will undoubtedly garner some serious attention in the national media in the coming weeks and months. Ten states will require voters to present photo ID when voting in this year’s midterms, despite vigorous attacks from liberal opponents and the Obama Administration.

…Voter ID is just another common sense requirement in a world where photo identification is required for nearly everything. And it is only one of the measures, albeit an important one, that should be taken by election officials to secure the integrity of the election process.