Last week, the president spoke about the need for safeguards to insure that only legal voters vote.That reminded me of my own experience several years ago when — as Executive Director of the Texas Republican County Chairman’s Association — I went from office to office in the State Capitol Building visiting with elected officials and their staffs and trying to convince them of the need for a picture ID requirement for voting. Initially even Republicans weren’t in favor of the legislation because they had pieces of legislation they were already pushing and believed that introducing a picture ID requirement would ...