This problem is partially caused by state laws incidentally. It seems that many states require that you have a driving license in that state in order to have a car insurance policy there.
Fortunately, the Ohio legislature never thought that was necessary. I see ads all the time in the local Hispanic newspapers where insurance companies say "we'll insure you on your Mexican state license."
So, why do we impose the heaviest sentences for murder, regardless of circumstance
We don't necessarily. Some murders, sure, but murder tends to have a lot more chances for parole than other crimes, for the reasons you stated.
Having said that, the factors that go into determining a jail sentence are wildly variable: media attention on the case, prosecutor interest, quality of defense, legislative intent, parole board make-up, etc. It's almost random.
Indeed. ID cards are a terrible solution--but one pushed hard by ID card vendors and adopted by quite a lot of businesses.
In a lot of instances, you'd be better off not having any type of security at all. Instead, your security would come from the micro level, by having all your employees well aware that anyone can walk into the building at any time and you must be vigilant at all times.
If you decide you must have entrance vetting, I believe that issuing a non-photo ID card and having a security guard is best. In lieu of the photograph, use descriptors (height, weight, eye color.) It forces the guard to study the card and the person thoroughly before letting them through, which is awesome, but it does have the down side that it's slow.
The problem is a vast majority of people still won't have a choice since cable companies already divide up local areas.
That's a shame. I live in an apartment complex with access to two companies (Time Warner and WideOpenWest.) To say that they are competitive with each other would be an understatement. (One downfall is that each company drops between one and two pamphlets weekly in my mailbox.)
Funny, I don't actually pay for cable. For as long as I've lived here, either a Time Warner signal or a WideOpenWest signal has come into my apartment for free (barring a few month period.) Either company can wire any apartment: some apartments are wired for one, some apartments are wired for the other, and some apartments are wired for both. (Mine is seemingly wired for only one, but, as mentioned, I've had the signal flip from one to another.) I have a feeling the installers have no idea what the hell is going on and are loathe to touch the other company's wiring (and this issue is made more complex by the fact that both sub-contract installing.)
Well, it wouldn't be the police who would request the source to check for accuracy, it would be the prosecutors--and that's not a path they would want to go down. They've been fighting it tooth and nail in regards to the breathalysers, and using it against GPS devices would create precedence forcing them to defend the source on every tool police use for traffic enforcement.
I said the general consensus but I admit it's a lot of conjecture on the part of armchair CEO's:
"Bell said she expects the airline to start charging for "A" boarding passes itself.
The airline has said it is studying ways to boost revenue, and charging for premium seats has been mentioned by many analysts." (from here
I flew Southwest out of San Antonio when they were testing the new boarding, and I really liked it. Although, I had pass A4 so I was in good shape (I prefer a window seat as far front as possible.)
Funny, I had a bad dream in which the nightmare was having a C pass.
The company that says "oh, by the way, your baggage will come last if you but this cheap ticket" will likely lose out to the one that doesn't say that upfront. The company that doesn't implicitly "include" the discount in the price will appear at first glance to be more expensive and lose out- or if they explicitly mention the discount, they'll have the same problem as the company that makes clear your baggage will come last.
I don't agree entirely with this. Air travel is a unique industry...the enormous stresses associated with it mean that passengers value consistency over everything. In the 80's, the big carriers were surprised that no-frills upstarts like Southwest were getting acclaim in spite of their paucity of services--but Southwest did a great job at consistency--promising little and delivering on it repeatedly.
If the ultra low cost carrier Skybus manages to deliver consistency on its super no-frills services, then passengers will prove loyal to that as well.
On page 3 of the.pdf it says "Candara can replace Trebuchet MS and Helvetica."
However, the font in the 3rd column of page 3, while labeled as Helvetica, isn't. It's Arial. The small case "t" is the give-away. Helvetica's "t" has a flat-top while Arial's has a slanted top.
(I think I learned that in the movie btw.:-)
My Win XP machine came with a font called "Helvetica" that is clearly Arial. I'm not sure why. I had to download real Helvetica.
Close the boxes, put tamper seals on the boxes, and lock the door behind you. Post a security guard if required.
That's an insignificant expense
I disagree that this is an insignificant expense. That would require thousands of security guards for that one night...(good election practices are that at least 2 people are used to watch over ballots. For instance, here in Ohio, they would have 2 people, one of whom is a democrat and the other who is a republican (independents can play the role of either.)
In my experience, a head precinct judge takes the election results bag (which is sealed by pollworkers) to a drop off location manned by the gents at the Highway Patrol, who take it downtown. I guess that does imply there is a short period of time where one person has the ballots and could play with them unobserved.
What happens if the ballot box is tampered with? It's not an easy question to answer, since it involved uncounted ballots.
Experience worldwide has shown that leaving uncounted ballots overnight is the easiest way to bring on a tampered election.
The article reeked of condesension towards the Russians.
I feel like that the root of that problem was a cultural misunderstanding. I get that impression from this key line in the article:
These were the first of many bad guesses by top Russian program managers that would distract engineers trying to get at the real problem.
I remember reading an article about an airliner crash in Russia. What hit me was that every lay observer of the crash would first say what they saw and then say why the plane crashed. From little kids to elderly farmers the reports went along the lines of "I saw the wing tip towards the ground. It's because the engine failed."
These people have no flipping clue of the cause of the accident, and I feel that if they were Americans they would only report on the event they saw, and not try to invent causes for that event. But the point is, if there is a cultural proclivity for Russians to invent off the cuff causes for the event, than those Americans working with them have to take that into account, and recognize that behavior for what it is.
Culture is bad only when you don't recognize it and know what to do with it. An article in Russian about the same set of circumstances might say that the Americans were taciturn, not offering suggestions about why the event occurred, and taking too much time stealing Russian suggestions for what might have happened.
(Disclaimer: I have studied Russian and Russian culture, but I have not lived there. If my anecdotal observation is correct, I don't know why it occurs and what it's purpose is. Then again, I'm an American.:-)
If it isn't, that means that uncounted ballots have to be stored securely at the individual precincts until the pollworkers (or some other counters) return to count the ballots. (Very complex and expensive.) I guess it's possible to move the uncounted ballots to a central place for counting , but then the counting won't be done by the pollworkers, they'll be performed by someone else. (I guess it would also be possible for separate counters to come at the end of the day and count the ballots at the polling site except that would require all new volunteers to do something that's heinously boring.)
One of the most innovative, and arguably, bizarre, math books to be written is Who is Fourier? A Mathematical Aventure. It's a wonderfully easy approach and fun approach to quite a lot of math (some of which is high level.) By no means is it an academic study, but it's a strong enough introduction that you'll feel more comfortable with math.
Having said that, it's not for you if you don't like cutesy. Parts of it are essentially Hello Kitty does math.
On the other hand, quite a lot of people in this world would likely get off on that.
It's a good question. The first answer to it is that it's difficult to find pollworkers as it is. (Already a not-insignificant quantity of them are high schoolers drafted by their government teachers.) It's a long 13 hour day, and having to end it and then count all the ballots would make it long and painful--to the point of discouraging pollworker participation.
Though I happen to agree that fast election results is not that important (and I also happen to think that Americans can be much more tolerant of slow results than people believe.)
If there are multiple referendums or positions to be voted for, just use colour-coded ballots and ballot boxes.
How many do you propose. In my county in November 2004, I voted for 54 different things. (President, Congress, Ohio House, Ohio Senate, State board of education, a bunch of judges, a bunch of county executive offices, several county tax authorizations and a lot of municipal tax authorizations.)
Admittedly, that was particularly severe, even for a presidential election.
I've been a pollworker for several years now, and while I have never worked a paper only election, I've got an idea of what is required as part of the counting process and it's heinous for a big election.
True, but this will probably be simple for some time to come. GM doesn't offer it standard in a lot of its cars, so it has to be an add on feature, and like add-on features, they tend to be easy to remove.
In my car, Onstar has it's own fuse, so I can just remove it. I suspect that Onstar will continue having its own fuse.
I got to watch a Peoplesoft HR implementation at a large public university in the late 90s. It was really the first time that Peoplesoft was being deployed for university HR purposes.
It was a painful, ugly and almost absurdly expensive transition (we're talking an initial budget of $10-12 million, but a final cost more in the $100-120 million range.) Over and over again I heard complaints that there was no particular way of doing X in the Peoplesoft software--the unique payroll setup of a public university wasn't taken into account.
This wasn't helped by the odd client access method--running the Peoplesoft software on NT 3.51 servers, and then having users access it via Citrix Winframe. At the time that probably seemed like a good idea--and perhaps today it would be a lot more stable and fast, but back then it was a slow as molasses.
With one common language, we may have a better chance of understanding each other.
We might, but then again, we might not. Put a native Texan in a room with a native Mumbaikar (individual from Bombay/Mumbai, India) and see what happens. Both are native English speakers.
Sometimes what's worse is the expectation that they should understand each other because they speak the same language, but they might not at all.
Note that credit unions are insured separately by a different organization, so money market accounts there may be covered.
The federal insurance program which insures credit unions is essentially the same as the FDIC insurance program.
However, for some reason, only credit unions seek out secondary private insurance (at least, I know of no bank that has the secondary insurance.) My credit union has secondary insurance (from these people) that adds $250k to the $100k to make $350k, and it will work for money market accounts.
Moreover, while the federal $100k limit is, as I understand, per person at a bank, the $250k secondary insurance is per account at a bank. So essentially my first account is good for $350k and all my other ones are good for $250k.
If you keep around that much cash (I wouldn't even if I had it...the dollar's taking a whipping now:-) it's worth looking into a credit union.
That sort of idiocy is on par for this state. Not surprised at all...
To be fair, the most egregious things you hear from Ohio are stupid decisions made at the municipal level and at the executive level. While really brain dead bills are introduced in the legislature all the time, our state legislature is so dysfunctional and busy raising money that it doesn't bother passing many bills at all. (It's a full time legislature that will pass 200 bills in two years. It's insanely ineffectively.)
But the flipside of this is, for the most part, it only passes bills that are desperately needed. Ohio has avoided passing a lot of bad bills--for instance, we never had the prevent-youths-from-buying-violent-video-games legislation...which states like Illinois, California and New York had to deal with.
Now those states pass a huge amount of bad bills (all in different ways.) And don't get me started on states like Georgia and Texas.
Since your question asks "what's the harm" that implies to me that you already know that there is no value to requiring ID to vote, that it is highly unlikely to prevent fraudulent voting, but that there might be a psychological benefit to it, in terms of making people feel better about democracy. (If you check out the document linked in my sig, I hypothesize that quite a lot of the value, mostly for bad, of ID cards, is that they have a psychological effect on people.)
I'd also skip the politics over this issue. It's not unusual that one party espouses a change that the other one doesn't support, it's unusual that something we never really required in this country, or even thought necessary, became immediately requisite nationwide in a very short time period. Watching the desperation of state legislatures to pass the ID to vote bills, where a year before they didn't care, has been fascinating.
This makes for an interesting issue, because I think that, in the long run, we're going to go to mail-in voting anyway, so the whole ID thing will become largely irrelevant.
Having said that:
a.) I believe it's a mistake to cobble ID cards with more duties than it already has, and furthermore, pretend it's competent at those duties. If anything, what needs to happen is state DMVs should print on the cards "not guaranteed for identification purposes" and work their best and convincing people that IDs are a bad solution to whatever they're trying to do.
b.) I believe it's dehumanizing and a mistake to allow the government to dictate that you need an ID card to interface with it. That's a slippery slope that is best avoided--it creates a situation where you as a citizen are irrelevant if you don't have an ID card. In fact, you see some of this coming into place already--here in Ohio, a pollworker is supposed to reject an ID card which is expired. If you consider the absurdity of a one day expired ID card being rejected for voting, I think you'll see where I'm going with this.
c.) In the long run, a lot of voters are marginal--people who drive by the polling place and spontaneously decide to vote. These voters are uninformed and it's hard to say what exactly they're adding to democracy, but the general consensus was that their voting should be encouraged. Minor barriers will discourage these votes, and that's troublesome particularly when the best benefits of the barrier are psychological.
ID is required to apply for food stamps, and nobody says that's an unfair burden to impose on the poor.
I don't believe this is the case, at least in my state. Forms of ID are accepted, but I think they also accept statements from others attesting to identity (like a notary public, if you will.)
I'm addressing the harm of requiring ID to vote as a reply to the parent.
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illegals do drive, without insurance
This problem is partially caused by state laws incidentally. It seems that many states require that you have a driving license in that state in order to have a car insurance policy there.
Fortunately, the Ohio legislature never thought that was necessary. I see ads all the time in the local Hispanic newspapers where insurance companies say "we'll insure you on your Mexican state license."
Apparently no other state has figured this out.
So, why do we impose the heaviest sentences for murder, regardless of circumstance
We don't necessarily. Some murders, sure, but murder tends to have a lot more chances for parole than other crimes, for the reasons you stated.
Having said that, the factors that go into determining a jail sentence are wildly variable: media attention on the case, prosecutor interest, quality of defense, legislative intent, parole board make-up, etc. It's almost random.
Indeed. ID cards are a terrible solution--but one pushed hard by ID card vendors and adopted by quite a lot of businesses.
In a lot of instances, you'd be better off not having any type of security at all. Instead, your security would come from the micro level, by having all your employees well aware that anyone can walk into the building at any time and you must be vigilant at all times.
If you decide you must have entrance vetting, I believe that issuing a non-photo ID card and having a security guard is best. In lieu of the photograph, use descriptors (height, weight, eye color.) It forces the guard to study the card and the person thoroughly before letting them through, which is awesome, but it does have the down side that it's slow.
The problem is a vast majority of people still won't have a choice since cable companies already divide up local areas.
That's a shame. I live in an apartment complex with access to two companies (Time Warner and WideOpenWest.) To say that they are competitive with each other would be an understatement. (One downfall is that each company drops between one and two pamphlets weekly in my mailbox.)
Funny, I don't actually pay for cable. For as long as I've lived here, either a Time Warner signal or a WideOpenWest signal has come into my apartment for free (barring a few month period.) Either company can wire any apartment: some apartments are wired for one, some apartments are wired for the other, and some apartments are wired for both. (Mine is seemingly wired for only one, but, as mentioned, I've had the signal flip from one to another.) I have a feeling the installers have no idea what the hell is going on and are loathe to touch the other company's wiring (and this issue is made more complex by the fact that both sub-contract installing.)
when the police request it to check its accuracy
Well, it wouldn't be the police who would request the source to check for accuracy, it would be the prosecutors--and that's not a path they would want to go down. They've been fighting it tooth and nail in regards to the breathalysers, and using it against GPS devices would create precedence forcing them to defend the source on every tool police use for traffic enforcement.
I said the general consensus but I admit it's a lot of conjecture on the part of armchair CEO's:
"Bell said she expects the airline to start charging for "A" boarding passes itself.
The airline has said it is studying ways to boost revenue, and charging for premium seats has been mentioned by many analysts." (from here
I flew Southwest out of San Antonio when they were testing the new boarding, and I really liked it. Although, I had pass A4 so I was in good shape (I prefer a window seat as far front as possible.)
Funny, I had a bad dream in which the nightmare was having a C pass.
The company that says "oh, by the way, your baggage will come last if you but this cheap ticket" will likely lose out to the one that doesn't say that upfront. The company that doesn't implicitly "include" the discount in the price will appear at first glance to be more expensive and lose out- or if they explicitly mention the discount, they'll have the same problem as the company that makes clear your baggage will come last.
I don't agree entirely with this. Air travel is a unique industry...the enormous stresses associated with it mean that passengers value consistency over everything. In the 80's, the big carriers were surprised that no-frills upstarts like Southwest were getting acclaim in spite of their paucity of services--but Southwest did a great job at consistency--promising little and delivering on it repeatedly.
If the ultra low cost carrier Skybus manages to deliver consistency on its super no-frills services, then passengers will prove loyal to that as well.
and they don't seem to try to fsck the last $ out of their customers.
Alas, that's almost guaranteed to end. The general consensus is that Southwest will start charging for A passes.
"Constantia can replace ... Helvetica".
.pdf it says "Candara can replace Trebuchet MS and Helvetica."
:-)
On page 3 of the
However, the font in the 3rd column of page 3, while labeled as Helvetica, isn't. It's Arial.
The small case "t" is the give-away. Helvetica's "t" has a flat-top while Arial's has a slanted top.
(I think I learned that in the movie btw.
My Win XP machine came with a font called "Helvetica" that is clearly Arial. I'm not sure why. I had to download real Helvetica.
Close the boxes, put tamper seals on the boxes, and lock the door behind you. Post a security guard if required.
That's an insignificant expense
I disagree that this is an insignificant expense. That would require thousands of security guards for that one night...(good election practices are that at least 2 people are used to watch over ballots. For instance, here in Ohio, they would have 2 people, one of whom is a democrat and the other who is a republican (independents can play the role of either.)
In my experience, a head precinct judge takes the election results bag (which is sealed by pollworkers) to a drop off location manned by the gents at the Highway Patrol, who take it downtown. I guess that does imply there is a short period of time where one person has the ballots and could play with them unobserved.
What happens if the ballot box is tampered with? It's not an easy question to answer, since it involved uncounted ballots.
Experience worldwide has shown that leaving uncounted ballots overnight is the easiest way to bring on a tampered election.
The article reeked of condesension towards the Russians.
:-)
I feel like that the root of that problem was a cultural misunderstanding. I get that impression from this key line in the article:
These were the first of many bad guesses by top Russian program managers that would distract engineers trying to get at the real problem.
I remember reading an article about an airliner crash in Russia. What hit me was that every lay observer of the crash would first say what they saw and then say why the plane crashed. From little kids to elderly farmers the reports went along the lines of "I saw the wing tip towards the ground. It's because the engine failed."
These people have no flipping clue of the cause of the accident, and I feel that if they were Americans they would only report on the event they saw, and not try to invent causes for that event. But the point is, if there is a cultural proclivity for Russians to invent off the cuff causes for the event, than those Americans working with them have to take that into account, and recognize that behavior for what it is.
Culture is bad only when you don't recognize it and know what to do with it. An article in Russian about the same set of circumstances might say that the Americans were taciturn, not offering suggestions about why the event occurred, and taking too much time stealing Russian suggestions for what might have happened.
(Disclaimer: I have studied Russian and Russian culture, but I have not lived there. If my anecdotal observation is correct, I don't know why it occurs and what it's purpose is. Then again, I'm an American.
Does it all have to be done in one day?
If it isn't, that means that uncounted ballots have to be stored securely at the individual precincts until the pollworkers (or some other counters) return to count the ballots. (Very complex and expensive.) I guess it's possible to move the uncounted ballots to a central place for counting , but then the counting won't be done by the pollworkers, they'll be performed by someone else. (I guess it would also be possible for separate counters to come at the end of the day and count the ballots at the polling site except that would require all new volunteers to do something that's heinously boring.)
One of the most innovative, and arguably, bizarre, math books to be written is Who is Fourier? A Mathematical Aventure. It's a wonderfully easy approach and fun approach to quite a lot of math (some of which is high level.) By no means is it an academic study, but it's a strong enough introduction that you'll feel more comfortable with math.
Having said that, it's not for you if you don't like cutesy. Parts of it are essentially Hello Kitty does math.
On the other hand, quite a lot of people in this world would likely get off on that.
So?
It's a good question. The first answer to it is that it's difficult to find pollworkers as it is. (Already a not-insignificant quantity of them are high schoolers drafted by their government teachers.) It's a long 13 hour day, and having to end it and then count all the ballots would make it long and painful--to the point of discouraging pollworker participation.
Though I happen to agree that fast election results is not that important (and I also happen to think that Americans can be much more tolerant of slow results than people believe.)
If there are multiple referendums or positions to be voted for, just use colour-coded ballots and ballot boxes.
How many do you propose. In my county in November 2004, I voted for 54 different things. (President, Congress, Ohio House, Ohio Senate, State board of education, a bunch of judges, a bunch of county executive offices, several county tax authorizations and a lot of municipal tax authorizations.)
Admittedly, that was particularly severe, even for a presidential election.
I've been a pollworker for several years now, and while I have never worked a paper only election, I've got an idea of what is required as part of the counting process and it's heinous for a big election.
One of my personal favorites is how I've heard them use the word "tension."
When negotiations for a car deal were getting complex: "this is quite a lot of tension."
The reference here was not to interpersonal tension, but tension can refer to complexity or bureaucracy.
For how many students and staff? That seems like a huge amount of money.
About 55,000 students, 25,000 staff. (That includes multiple campuses as well as a hospital system.)
Unless you break it yourself, it is always on.
True, but this will probably be simple for some time to come. GM doesn't offer it standard in a lot of its cars, so it has to be an add on feature, and like add-on features, they tend to be easy to remove.
In my car, Onstar has it's own fuse, so I can just remove it. I suspect that Onstar will continue having its own fuse.
This is especially true in the public sector
I got to watch a Peoplesoft HR implementation at a large public university in the late 90s. It was really the first time that Peoplesoft was being deployed for university HR purposes.
It was a painful, ugly and almost absurdly expensive transition (we're talking an initial budget of $10-12 million, but a final cost more in the $100-120 million range.) Over and over again I heard complaints that there was no particular way of doing X in the Peoplesoft software--the unique payroll setup of a public university wasn't taken into account.
This wasn't helped by the odd client access method--running the Peoplesoft software on NT 3.51 servers, and then having users access it via Citrix Winframe. At the time that probably seemed like a good idea--and perhaps today it would be a lot more stable and fast, but back then it was a slow as molasses.
I have a six-year-old in second grade and a four-year-old in kindergarten.
Are you by any chance located near and able to afford a Montesorri school?
With one common language, we may have a better chance of understanding each other.
We might, but then again, we might not. Put a native Texan in a room with a native Mumbaikar (individual from Bombay/Mumbai, India) and see what happens. Both are native English speakers.
Sometimes what's worse is the expectation that they should understand each other because they speak the same language, but they might not at all.
Note that credit unions are insured separately by a different organization, so money market accounts there may be covered.
:-) it's worth looking into a credit union.
The federal insurance program which insures credit unions is essentially the same as the FDIC insurance program.
However, for some reason, only credit unions seek out secondary private insurance (at least, I know of no bank that has the secondary insurance.) My credit union has secondary insurance (from these people) that adds $250k to the $100k to make $350k, and it will work for money market accounts.
Moreover, while the federal $100k limit is, as I understand, per person at a bank, the $250k secondary insurance is per account at a bank . So essentially my first account is good for $350k and all my other ones are good for $250k.
If you keep around that much cash (I wouldn't even if I had it...the dollar's taking a whipping now
That sort of idiocy is on par for this state. Not surprised at all...
To be fair, the most egregious things you hear from Ohio are stupid decisions made at the municipal level and at the executive level. While really brain dead bills are introduced in the legislature all the time, our state legislature is so dysfunctional and busy raising money that it doesn't bother passing many bills at all. (It's a full time legislature that will pass 200 bills in two years. It's insanely ineffectively.)
But the flipside of this is, for the most part, it only passes bills that are desperately needed. Ohio has avoided passing a lot of bad bills--for instance, we never had the prevent-youths-from-buying-violent-video-games legislation...which states like Illinois, California and New York had to deal with.
Now those states pass a huge amount of bad bills (all in different ways.) And don't get me started on states like Georgia and Texas.
What's the harm in requiring ID to vote?
Since your question asks "what's the harm" that implies to me that you already know that there is no value to requiring ID to vote, that it is highly unlikely to prevent fraudulent voting, but that there might be a psychological benefit to it, in terms of making people feel better about democracy. (If you check out the document linked in my sig, I hypothesize that quite a lot of the value, mostly for bad, of ID cards, is that they have a psychological effect on people.)
I'd also skip the politics over this issue. It's not unusual that one party espouses a change that the other one doesn't support, it's unusual that something we never really required in this country, or even thought necessary, became immediately requisite nationwide in a very short time period. Watching the desperation of state legislatures to pass the ID to vote bills, where a year before they didn't care, has been fascinating.
This makes for an interesting issue, because I think that, in the long run, we're going to go to mail-in voting anyway, so the whole ID thing will become largely irrelevant.
Having said that:
a.) I believe it's a mistake to cobble ID cards with more duties than it already has, and furthermore, pretend it's competent at those duties. If anything, what needs to happen is state DMVs should print on the cards "not guaranteed for identification purposes" and work their best and convincing people that IDs are a bad solution to whatever they're trying to do.
b.) I believe it's dehumanizing and a mistake to allow the government to dictate that you need an ID card to interface with it. That's a slippery slope that is best avoided--it creates a situation where you as a citizen are irrelevant if you don't have an ID card. In fact, you see some of this coming into place already--here in Ohio, a pollworker is supposed to reject an ID card which is expired. If you consider the absurdity of a one day expired ID card being rejected for voting, I think you'll see where I'm going with this.
c.) In the long run, a lot of voters are marginal--people who drive by the polling place and spontaneously decide to vote. These voters are uninformed and it's hard to say what exactly they're adding to democracy, but the general consensus was that their voting should be encouraged. Minor barriers will discourage these votes, and that's troublesome particularly when the best benefits of the barrier are psychological.
ID is required to apply for food stamps, and nobody says that's an unfair burden to impose on the poor.
I don't believe this is the case, at least in my state. Forms of ID are accepted, but I think they also accept statements from others attesting to identity (like a notary public, if you will.)
I'm addressing the harm of requiring ID to vote as a reply to the parent.