To keep people from trying to get a free voter ID instead of an ID that actually means something outside of the voting place. Saves work and time for when they'd inevitably have to come back.

So not telling them about the voter ID at all is preferable to saying "this ID is only good for voting?" Not buying it, sorry.


If you're going in for a voter ID, you know.

But if you're going in for an ID in order to vote, you may not. Again, the ID-to-vote law was put on the books three months ago, and the law itself only requires any kind of photo ID--it's a perfectly reasonable scenario for someone to go in and pay for a license just to vote (or more to the point, decide not to), if they're unaware of the voting-specific form of ID available. (I've been trying to find out but I'm not sure how much newer the voter ID is; all I know is that it did not arrive the same day as the law, but was a later response to potential challenges to the law. It's a new option, is what I'm saying.)

There's just no reasonable basis to assume anyone getting an ID for voting purposes already knows the voting-specific ID exists.