"Maybe instead of lowering standards so people can participate we can raise those people up and give them more than what they already have?"

Nice spin attempt. First, the voting standard has been that we did not require photo ID to vote. Thus no standard is being "lowered" when this standard remains the same. 

Second, providing free photo IDs does nothing to improve the quality of life of those who do not currently have them. The poor are not poor because they don't have photo IDs, they don't have photo ID's because they are poor. 

The real issue is that requiring photo ID's to vote disenfranchises exponentially more eligible voters that it does to prevent supposed "fraudulent" votes.