Voter ID Laws - Discriminatory or Necessary?

The following text was part of a recent email I received from the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC):

Over the past decade, Republican state legislators have fought to ensure the integrity of elections by passing laws that require voters to present a photo ID before they are permitted to vote.

These laws have been a success in protecting our elections and stopping illegal votes from being counted on Election Day.

But now liberal activists have announced plans to devote over $30 million to overturn voter ID laws passed by state legislators and supported by the American people.

Voter ID laws make it easier to vote and harder to cheat and have been upheld by courts across the country. 

We've heard about this issue many times in the past, but here's one article from 2016 I found in researching this topic:

African-Americans who fought for voting rights during the Civil Rights movement claim the new laws are meant to secure a Republican majority in states with large black populations that consistently vote Democrat. In July, a North Carolina federal court overturned the state’s voter ID law, ruling that it targets African-Americans “with almost surgical precision.”

Question: Do you drive a car, truck, RV, SUV, or any other type of motorized vehicle requiring a driver’s license to operate? You do? So do I! An so do most people of driving age in this country.

This quote above, and here “Nine Southern states have implemented voting restrictions since 2012. Most require voters to show state-issued photo ID at the polls.” caused me to wonder about the real motive behind such a piece. In this article from CBS News, the implication is that there are hundreds of thousands of residents in the southern states who do not have state-issued photo ID; who happen to be black. Really?

Question: Why is this article using the Civil Rights movement of the sixties and linking more recent laws passed by southern states about voter ID laws to it?

Answer: Liberals want to continue the narrative of racism to leverage false claims which have nothing to do with the reason for these new laws, but, more importantly, to continue fostering voter fraud such as multiple votes which have been proven to have occurred. Another reason for such recent laws is because of the massive influx of illegal immigrants who are effectively blending into our society and have attempted, sometimes successfully, to vote in our elections, that’s why!

Notice how the reporters who wrote this short, but obviously biased, article using words like “claim” and phrases like, “… secure a Republican majority…” and “… states with large black populations that consistently vote Democrat.”? These arguments fall apart when one realizes the fallacy of the points made regarding the requirement of state-issued photo ID to be presented at the polling locations in an election.

If there actually are those who do not posses a driver’s license, and they are interested in voting – it would be interesting to know what the actual voter participation of southern state residents actually is – then it wouldn’t be that difficult for them to go to where they could prove legal residence and acquire a state-issued photo ID in advance.

Is that expectation and motivation to protect the integrity of our elections from being defrauded racist, or discriminatory? Of course not!