It’s a truth universally acknowledged that laws requiring voters to show some form of identification have only one purpose: to suppress minority turnout and help the Republican party. The official line, after all, is that there has never-ever-not-once-in-the-history-of-the-republic–been-even-one-instance-of-voter-fraud. Voter ID laws, therefore, are said to be a solution to a non-existent problem, and a racist one to boot.