IDs for voters

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WASHINGTON - Warning that public confidence in the nation's election system is flagging, a commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III will call today for significant changes in how Americans vote, including photo IDs for all voters, verifiable paper trails for electronic voting machines and impartial administration of elections. . .

Critics of voter ID cards say the requirement could intimidate or discourage some Americans, particularly the elderly, the poor and minorities, from participating in elections and raises privacy issues.

I just don't get it. How does having to prove who you are in order to prevent voter fraud raise "privacy issues"? And what is "intimidating" about being asked to show an ID?

If there are good arguments in opposition to an ID requirement for voters, I'd like to hear them because these objections are really lame.