Should a Photo ID be required to cast a vote?

You really can't say voter fraud is almost non-existent because we don't ID people so how do you know if they can or cannot vote without asking them? On top of that we have proof that some people who aren't suppose to vote have voted. We've seen cases where an illegal alien ran for office and had voted in the past, we also have a study from New York where DOI undercover agents showed up at 63 polling places and pretended to be voters who should have been turned away by election officials. The agents had assumed the names of individuals who had died or moved out of town, or who were sitting in jail. In 61 instances, or 97 percent of the time, the testers were allowed to vote.

In my state there is no voter registration, you show up with an ID and vote simple.

What about the poor who can't afford an ID you say, well, you need an ID to apply for food stamps, to open a bank account to apply for welfare and to Rent/buy a house. So either the poor aren't doing any of those things or they already have the proper ID.

Really? When I was in the Navy, we "conveniently" deployed one month prior to the 2000 elections and I received my absentee ballot four days after the election (those same ballots Gore did not want to count). In 2008, I moved to Arizona from Nevada and registered to vote there but still received an absentee ballot from Arizona for the Presidential elections (no I did not cast the NV absentee one). In 2010, [Google it] Nevada saw a 50,000 person drop in population and yet sizeable increase in inactive voter registrations which were instrumental (along with the casino votes bussed to the polls) in re-electing Harry Reid. How many were "erroneously" sent ballots that should not have been and how many were named "Mickey Mouse"? There is documented proof that fraud exists and I have personally seen some of it.

I believe that voter fraud is NOT "almost non-existent" and it is NOT exclusively republican. If it truly did involve republicans then that is what the news media would talk about all the time. Take the Obama supporter in Ohio that admitted that she voted for Obama 6 times. Yeah the media talked about it but, they have never followed up on the story.

I had an aunt that was not able to get an ID in NC when the state tried to require one for a bank account. She was born in 1918 in WV. I think at home out in the country. She never married or got a drivers license. Her biggest problem was her name was Marguerete which can be spelled a dozen different ways. She worked her entire adult life and was an officer for a small business. Most of her life she lived in a big city in NC.
I would have been interesting for someone that voted in most elections with poll workers she had gone to church with for decades would now say she could not vote. Getting the id to vote may be easier now then in the late 90s but it is wrong to exclude someone that can be legal in every other way.

I realize her problem was when and where she was born but it is up to the states to make it easy especially for old people that are known in their home community. Especially if they have voted for years. Not against the ID but no American should be kept from getting one free.

I would disagree with ids slowing things down. When I voted a few weeks ago giving the poll worker my drivers license so she could compare the address to the voting roll instead of asking a lot of question