Any cost that is affiliated with procuring an ID for the purpose of voting is considered a poll tax - quite illegal.

One of the Southern States can't remember which one, put in thier law that a State photo ID would be free. I find that very hard to believe - the cost to the state would be incredible and with no valid evidence of voter fraud, it's not likely that the voter ID law is motivated by anything less than discrimination.

Perhaps,like Texas, the locations to obtain state photo ID's are inaccessable to rural areas that are predominantly minority populated.

Student ID's have proved to be at issue because students are not always residents of the state in which they attend college. Oddly enough, most of the polls of college students indicate they are majority Democrats.

There is one state that allowed student ID from State Colleges but not from private colleges - the largest private colleges in the state were known to have quite liberal students.

It's difficult to read the courts reasoning for striking down these laws, and the legal documentation provided by representatives fighting these laws, without coming to the conclusion that there is an agenda and it is not to avoid voter fraud but to perpitrate it under the name of law.