My fears.

OK. So, I'm a partisan Democrat. Republicans worry about mobs of dead people showing up to the poll. I worry about stuff like this:

By requiring identification only from newcomers who haven't visited the county clerk's office, hava entrusts local election officials to decide whether voters are who they claim to be. And it ultimately protects voters by telling states to set up rules for counting provisional ballots. "Hava does not require identification in order to have a vote counted," says Wendy Weiser, a lawyer with New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. But many Republican election officials are conducting this year's vote as if it does.

The article raises some distressing questions about the way in which HAVA may be used to demand photo ID of ALL voters at the polling place, thus preventing legitimately registered voters even those who are not newly registered from voting. It even comes with examples of Colorado Democrat voters who have been prevented from voting. Most worrisome graf:

Around the country, GOP officials are downplaying or ignoring hava's voter protections. South Carolina's election workers' manual--authorized by the state elections commission, which is chaired by a Republican--contradicts hava's provisional ballot requirements. "If a person presents himself ... without a valid [photo ID or registration certificate]," it says, "he/she should not be allowed to vote." In Colorado, where the chief election officer is also a Republican, the new voter registration form lists a driver's license or state-issued ID number as "required," even though the law allows other documents. And, in Bond's home state of Missouri, the law lets partisan poll workers waive ID requirements. It requires documents from "some government agency" or a post-secondary school at the polling place. (Poorer people are less likely to attend college.) But, if Ashcroft leaves his wallet in the car, he'll have no hassle. "Personal knowledge of the voter by two supervisory election judges is acceptable voter identification," says the law. Hypothetically, partisan election judges could waive in voters from their own party whom they "recognize," while barring others from the polling place.