There is no problem in asking for an ID at the polls. However, the people that are currently being targeted generally don't vote for Republicans. The voter id laws that are being changed are in Republican controlled states. The people that generally don't have a drivers license are inner city blacks. It might not be racism, but it is sure as hell targeting people that usually don't vote for you.

The 2002 Help America Vote act allowed for driver's licenses, but also the last four digits of your Social Security number. I don't know many people that don't know the last four digits of their SS number. Why was it necessary to change this law?

As soon as the Federal Preclearance law was ruled by the Supreme Court as not necessary any more, Southern states couldn't have run any faster to change their voter id laws. Surprise! Surprise! The people, that are now being targeted, are people that don't generally vote for them. For a party that always hails the Constitution, which they should, certainly don't think that much of the right to vote for people that don't agree with them. Racist or not, this is a fact. Texas tried to push accepting a gun owner's picture ID, but not a student's picture ID. Say what!

What is worse being called a racist, or being called un-American? One more time, when the Penn. leader of the their house said upon changing the voter id laws, "we just gave Penn to Romney." How can anyone defend what they did? According to Wikipedia, this is what they did, and how the court acted.

Pennsylvania's voter ID law allowed various forms of photo identification cards, including those held by drivers, government employees, in-state college students, and residents of elder-care facilities. Voters who do not possess these forms of identification can obtain voting-only photo IDs issued by the Pennsylvania Department of State through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT).[21] A judicial order on October 2, 2012 blocked enforcement of Pennsylvania's law until after the 2012 Presidential election. Following a trial in the summer of 2013 and a six-month delay, Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard L. McGinley struck down Pennsylvania's voter ID law as violative of the constitutional rights of state voters on January 17, 2014. Required IDs were only available through 71 PennDOT Drivers Licensing Centers across the state. Five of the 71 DLCs are located in Philadelphia, nine counties have no DLCs at all, and DLCs are open only one day per week in nine counties and two days per week thirteen counties. The Pennsylvania Department of State provided too little access, no financial support to providing IDs to those without access, and no alternatives to obtaining the required IDs. Judge McGinley found that this leaves about half of Pennsylvania without DLCs for five days a week, imposing a significant barrier to obtaining Pennsylvania's "free ID".[22] Photo IDs are not required to vote in PA.[23]