Voter ID does not suppress the vote

Washington Examiner:

Screaming opponents of voter ID laws, who argue that such a commonsense measure suppresses the vote or is even racist, are terrible liars. The best lies, after all, have to be remotely credible, and theirs are not.

This is the most important conclusion to draw from a new and illuminating study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Researchers Mark Hoekstra and Vijetha Koppa looked at more than 2,000 election races in Florida and Michigan. In those two states, where voters are asked for an ID at the polls but can still vote without it, the study found what common sense would suggest: that nearly everyone has and brings an ID when they go to vote, even in places where it isn’t strictly necessary.

“The law affects so few people,” the authors write, “that at most only 0.10% and 0.31% of total votes cast in each state were cast without IDs.”
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... the study makes clear the monstrous lies that left-wing groups have been telling about identification in general and the effects of voter IDs in particular. They claimed in court filings, no less, that as many as a million Hoosiers who are eligible to vote lack any form of legal identification. Last decade, the Brennan Center for Justice made the ludicrous claim that as many as 11% of all voting-age citizens — that’s tens of millions of adults, not including resident immigrants, legal or illegal — lack a photo ID.

The reminder provided by the new study is helpful, but the Brennan Center's falsehoods were never remotely credible. One can hardly get by for a single day without showing an ID. Never mind buying beer or cigarettes, you cannot rent or buy a home without proof of identity. Most employers will not hire you without one. You cannot cash a check without providing evidence of who you are. You may not be able to apply for welfare or housing benefits. You cannot board a plane, enroll in school, or enter most private or government office buildings without a valid ID. And, of course, you cannot drive a car.

So, where are all the caves in which these tens of millions of unemployable lawful U.S. citizens live, unable to travel except by foot, bicycle, or rowboat, and who live without the possibility of gaining relief from their travails with the purchase in a bar of a shot and a beer?
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It is also racist to claim that blacks and Hispanics are incapable of getting an ID.  I live around both and know they have ID's and need them to function in society in things that have nothing to do with voting.