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Here's my perspective from other countries (I've lived and voted in two). The America right will go absolutely apeshit if you criticize them from the point of view of a other country by saying "you have voter ID laws, you just want the USA to fail by allowing illegals to vote"
The thing is, for example Canada or the UK (both where I never once needed to show ID to vote) have voter ID laws in case you need to produce ID, but you probably don't. Because for most people you are registered to vote, you pay taxes, the government knows where you live and who lives there.
I turn up at a polling place with my name and address and they hand me my ballot. If another me showed up earlier, or later it'd be immediately apparent there was a problem when I tried to vote again.
If you aren't in this position, that's where vote ID comes in. What the right wingers in America never say is that almost any kind of ID at all that has your name on it is acceptable. There are hundreds of acceptable forms of ID and it's as broad as possible.
Also if all that fails and you literally have nothing to show for it, you can literally ask someone who is registered to just vouch for you. Yep, that's bill, he's a citizen as far as I know. Now bill gets a ballot.
We're allowed to have voter ID laws because we're using them to make sure absolutely everyone is able to vote while still ensuring secure elections. We're not using them to purge voter rolls and make sure you need an obscure specific government ID card in order to have the "privilege" (you see cause it's not a privilege, it's a right)
one thing you forgot to mention is that the american right wants these new voter IDs to implement a poll tax. they pretend like they aren't pushing that when someone explains to them why voter IDs are racist and classist, but the entire point is to disenfranchise non-white and poor voters with a poll tax. it fits right in line with red areas removing polling places from e.g. majority black neighborhoods.