I see the Voter ID laws as one more brick in the wall of inequality. In Australia, you just fill in a form and send it in and you are on the electoral roll. You might live under a bridge and have no birth certificate, but so long as you can find someone to witness your signature, that's fine. The Electoral Commission makes spot checks of enrolments and there's the occasional bit of noise made about phantom or multiple votes, but it never comes to anything much.

Making things incrementally more difficult for those on the bottom of the pile merely provides incentive for them to tip the whole lot over, or at least to lash out at the injustice.