The gun question first. Yes. I'd be fine with it. I've said in the past, if someone can afford to properly store an ICBM in their backyard, I'd be fine with that too. My opinion on the 2nd Amendment is extremely anti-regulation because it's a right. I recognize that, in practice, that you need certain requirements in place to safely store that ICBM and the government should make some effort to ensure they're there.
As for what ID is good enough to vote - pretty much anything from a utility bill to a state ID should be fine. You have to provide identification when you register.
And I don't care what anyone's particular motivations are. My specific argument is that it's an unnecessary hurdle regardless of motivation, although some motivations are worse than others.
The "let's prevent unauthorized use" argument is fallacious to me because there's a negligible amount of actual fraud. It's been studied and studied and studied and nothing of import has ever been found. But to take this argument to a right where there is actual evidence of abuse...
You're a 2nd Amendment supporter - if someone said we need more gun regulation to prevent unauthorized use, something which has significant documented evidence of occurring, you would probably raise some variant of the "criminals will engage in criminal behavior no matter what regulations we put in place." "Gun laws don't prevent criminals, they only impact the people already inclined to follow the law."
I think those are valid arguments. And they're equally applicable to voting. Because at the end of the day the question is about regulating rights and I cannot understand people who think some rights need restrictions and other rights don't.
A state ID is fine so long as the government issues it at the government's expense and no one has to apply for it. If it's something that just shows up in your mail every year, no questions asked, then that's fine although you couldn't force any state to accept a national ID for state elections because that would be federal overstep.
