[mikeash]

Voter ID laws are often accompanied by measures that make it more difficult for certain people to get ID. For example, it’s common to curtail hours or close DMV offices in urban areas.

In any case, that’s not strictly relevant. The intent to suppress voters is there even if it doesn’t work.

[jakeogh]

Common? When?

[mikeash]

Example: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/10/what-effect-will-shut...

If you search for “voter ID DMV closure” or “voter ID vote suppression” you’ll find plenty more examples. Another tactic is to tailor the set of acceptable forms of ID to favor certain groups. A court ruled that North Carolina recently did this to target minorities “with almost surgical precision.”

[jakeogh]

Thanks. In AZ, when you are issued an ID, it's good until you are 65. We also have provisional ballots.

So I looked up AL: https://www.dmv.org/al-alabama/id-cards.php (and got SEO'd)

4 years. And it's expensive. Bad. Seems like it's a reason for federal innovation at least on the fee and access side. ID's are difficult to copy, I haven't heard an arg to make them expire in such a short window.

That said, I would rather fix that problem than not have voter ID, some courts appear to agree it's a problem as you mentioned and have rightly intervened.