Michael Barone probably doesn't have any acquaintences
who don't have government-issued I.D., but there are
plenty of such people in the U.S.  There are millions
of Americans who have never flown on airplanes.  And
in low income neighborhoods, there are check-cashing
services that take a big chunk of any check that gets
cashed.  But poor people uses these services because
they don't have government photo ID's, and these
services don't require them.  

The evidence in the Georgia lawsuit against the photo
ID law shows that lots of people do not have
government-issued photo ID.
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from what Barone posted on his blog:

  Large numbers of political

players are charging that the basic requirement of
showing voter identification at the polls is a form
of undue intimidation. I think this is an astounding
and indefensible argument. We have to show
identification to cash a check or board an airliner.
Identification is easily available to any American -
and almost all of us carry official identifying
cards on us at all times. 

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