Ohio Veteran's ID Questioned

Think Progress, via Balloon Juice:

Paul Carroll, an 86-year-old World War II veteran who has lived in the same Ohio town for four decades, was denied a chance to vote in the state’s primary contests today after a poll worker denied his form of identification, a recently-acquired photo ID from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The poll worker rejected the ID because it did not contain an address, as required by Ohio law. Carroll told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that he got the ID from the VA after his driver’s license expired because he doesn’t drive anymore:

“My beef is that I had to pay a driver to take me up there because I don’t walk so well and have to use this cane and now I can’t even vote,” said Paul Carroll, 86, who has lived in Aurora nearly 40 years, running his own business, Carroll Tire, until 1975.
“I had to stop driving, but I got the photo ID from the Veterans Affairs instead, just a month or so ago. You would think that would count for something. I went to war for this country, but now I can’t vote in this country.”

A local Veterans Affairs employee told the Plain Dealer that the decision not to include the address was likely made at the federal level, and because VA IDs are accepted at any location, “the actual address of a veteran isn’t as critical to us.” Carroll was offered a provisional ballot, but the type was too small for him to read and “I was kind of perturbed by then,” he said.

Seriously, how many people go and vote more than once?  Because all a person has to do to vote is to live somewhere, register to vote and then show up and vote.  If a person shows up to vote, and they are registered, they are almost certainly actually that person.  Especially considering it is a felony to commit voter fraud.  So why in the hell do Republicans keep passing laws to require photo IDs?  To punish poor old people and minorities who don't already have drivers' licenses, that's why.  Well, amongst those they have at least hassled is an 86-year-old veteran who's lived in the same town for 40 years.

Stay classy, assholes.