That is a fine piece of polling you managed to produce, Blackrobe, but I truly fail to see the relevance between the percentage of U.S.-born adults age 18 or older who do not have birth certificates and the laws of the state of Indiana concerning the procurement of photo IDs by Indiana residents who do not possess their original birth certificates. It’s apples and oranges (or dogs and cats…or nuns and my third-grade self…). Point is, they simply don’t mesh (worked a nun reference in for you, Pilt). Anyway, back to my friend Blackrobe. You completely avoided the portion of the law that allows for Hoosiers who don’t have their birth certificates to receive a free photo ID. Was this an mere oversight on your part? Then you reply to my post with a national poll concerning birth certificates?! Here’s my last word on this (then, for the sake of the sanity of our fellow KPers – and my own, frankly – we should probably close this thread out, Blackrobe). The Indiana ID law is constitutional and not discriminatory. Is it an inconvenience for some to have to get a bus or cab ride to an ID center? Perhaps. However, the ID is free and (despite your strong suggestions to the contrary) fairly easy to obtain. This is an extremely small price to pay for Indiana to protect the integrity of their elections. Despite the saga of the nuns last Tuesday, there were virtually no issues with the new IDs on Primary Day in Indiana, and I would suggest you won’t see many arise in the future. Pilt made a good point in an earlier post that I’ll close with. Disenfranchisement is indeed real. People were DENIED their right to vote based upon the color of their skin for years in this country. Some say slavery is America’s “original sin”, but the denial of civil rights (such as the franchise) in the years after the Civil War should be viewed as an equally egregious offense. To suggest that the state of Indiana is engaging in behavior that could even be remotely similar to the “denial of civil rights” is absurd. If an individual does not have the means to vote (i.e., a photo ID), the state is PROVIDING them the means, not taking it away (i.e., disenfranchisement). Think about it.