Wow.  Yes, it has nothing to do with money.  But it has every thing to do with access.  When Alabama closes all but two places where people can get Voter ID cards, when available times to get a card are during the time when most normal people work and those people have to decide whether to be paid or get an ID card, you're incredibly naive or purposely obtuse to simply say that the government is just handing out ID cards for free.  Please.  I have to believe you're smarter than that.  If not, then shame on you. 

Fuck you.

It's a media story.  It's most definitely a Republican story because they're the ones most affected by people who can't get a Voter ID card.  No matter the hay John wants to sling at you, it's all about access and limiting that access so that people of lesser means won't or simply can't get the card they need just to vote.  It's easy to say it's four years between elections, but when you're faced with putting food on the table every day and thinking about an election, which one takes precedence?  That's obvious, right?  That's something all but the priveliged can agree upon, no?  And by privileged I don't mean the rich, I also mean just the middle class.  But Voter ID laws target the poor.  Those who can't make that decision.  So, yeah, fuck you if you don't have sympathy for people who can't take two hours off of work to get an ID because they're hourly and depend on that $20 to feed their family that week.