During a Tuesday evening town hall event in Mobile, U.S Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) was presented with an unexpected response from audience members when discussing voter identification and its perceived disenfranchisement of certain demographics.

In an attempt to further criticize the requirement of voter ID in elections, Figures asked attendees at the Truevine Missionary Baptist Church town hall how many of them did not have an ID, expecting to have a show of hands, only to have nobody raise their hands.

"So, regardless about how you feel about voter ID, this is not about that. This is about ease of registration, right? The most common form of ID that everybody has is a driver's license, right? Look, I'm of a different era, of a different generation. I probably feel a little bit differently about it, but watch this: How many people here do not have ID?"

When nobody raised their hand, the legislator remarked, "Everybody has an ID…so I thought something a little bit differently."

A recent Pew Research Center poll indicated that 83% of U.S. adults support requiring "voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote," while just 16% oppose it. The poll also showed that 71% of "self-identifying Democrats" now favor voter ID in elections.

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