Isn’t this a rule that in effect makes it more difficult for students to vote because they are likely to use a student ID that has no address or a drivers license at their permenant address in another county? Should students be required to pay the extra expense of getting a new drivers license or state ID with their new dorm address in order to exercise their right to vote?

This seems like an inapropriate rule in a county with a high student population.

(And to head off all the bitter complaints about voter fraud in Cook County, why don’t I acknowledge right now that Cook County has historically had problems with voter fraud. And no, I don’t want to mindlessly do whatever Cook County does. But I would like to know what the specific differences are.)

Also, while informative, this response does not really address the question I had, which was about how people get treated differently depending on where they vote. In my precinct, I have never — not once in 6 years of voting — had to present identification. I asked a voter in Champaign, and he told me that he *always* presents ID. And two voters in Savoy told me that sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t.

Why are there inconsistencies? Is this some problem in the training of election judges?