Yes, because that determines your polling place. At least the way I remember it. I think you can even do it online now.

So how does it work if you're homeless? Are there shelter or somesuch addresses you can use?

I just emailed in sick another day. This is really kicking my ass.

Wouldn't your note have covered today, too? Thursday, Friday, and today?

I'm honestly not sure what happens if you don't have an address.

So how does it work if you're homeless? Are there shelter or somesuch addresses you can use?

This is one of the big issues - one of the major services that shelters provide (beyond just coming in from the cold and maybe some food) is that they can provide an address for anything from finding a job to registering your kids for school to registering to vote. People (and agencies, and addresses) like those are a lot of what the "voter fraud" cranks like to yell about.

Yeah, I'm covered notewise for today. I just really really want to be well enough to work, so I beat myself up for it.

So, basically, one shouldn't have to a) pay b) be photographed or c) be put in the fingerprinting system in order to have to vote, and that's at the very least what your state is trying to enforce, msbelle? And they'll let one state do that and not the rest?

Unrelated to voting, I seriously need to get productive today. I lost a huge chunk of last week and have 3 projects at once. Which is yay but also ACK.

I would not be surprised if the measure gets challenged in court, but then it will be fuel for an argument of "The Fed gov't telling us what to do!!!" How DARE they.

I just found this, too:

Seven states have enacted voter identification laws that require or request certain forms of photo identification from voters. They are Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan and South Dakota, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Some of these states' laws are more strict than others.

I've been in someone's photo files since before I could speak, so it's hard for me to process that as something limiting or undesirable. I'm sure fingerprints followed shortly afterwards.

However, it was always something theoretically worth paying for. Being able to vote isn't "worth paying for." It is priceless.

I have to show ID to vote, but that ID can be a voter registration card, it doesn't have to be a photo ID.