Hector Martin

I can understand some aspects of voter ID requirements being proposed, but they need to ask if those are too onerous.

my general feel is that voter id requirements should only be as firm as the laws that issue these required documents.

This. Countries with mandatory ID cards can require them to vote, works great. The US is not such a country.

those IDs were primarily a "anti-insurgency" measure in most parts of SE Asia - would conflict with US values

ID cards are a perfectly normal thing in democratic, western European countries.

They were imported as part of the campaign to stop the Malayan Commie Insurgency.

Not saying they weren't, but ID cards are not inherently bad. The US could solve a lot of problems with them.

But for that they need to stop pretending they're optional and actually issue them to everyone.