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Virginia voters must have photo I.D.
New law says Virginia voters now have to carry photo I.D.s.
Virginia law will now require all voters to have photo IDs beginning in 2014.
The new legislation, passed last week, provides for a free valid ID to any registered voter. As part of the passage, Gov. Bob McDonnell has asked the State Board of Elections to start a public education program to tell voters about the new requirement before the 2014 congressional and U.S. Senate elections.
McDonnell and fellow Republicans say the law is a safeguard against voter fraud, but Virginia Democrats denounced the legislation as a tactic to suppress the votes of the elderly, minorities and the underprivileged.
it is crazy not to require an
it is crazy not to require an id. How else would you know who they were?