I recognized it as probable sarcasm; but in fact, many states have attempted to manipulate elections in exactly the ways you describe, with notable success. ID cards would be OK with me if they were given out free to everyone and easily replaced, without citizens having to prove citizenship (15 million US citizens have no birth certificate, driver license, state ID or any other proof of citizenship demanded by most if not all voter ID laws) . But then, that's the whole point, to disenfranchise those mostly very poor people in that situation, who, it is believed, mostly vote Democratic. And that is not sarcasm.