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Reasoning:
Minorities are less likely to have or need a photo ID. Minorities are more likely to be liberal. Therefore, the main people who will be affected by voter ID requirements are liberals.
Bolded is a red herring. I do grant your first argument to a point. Either it's a problem for minorities (liberal, conservative, libertarian, whatever) or it's a problem for liberals (regardless of race).
Evidence:
Voter ID laws: Why do minorities lack ID to show at the polls? - Slate Magazine
Minorities are less likely to have driver’s licenses because they are more likely to be poor and to live in urban areas. If you can’t afford a car, or if you don’t need one because you take the bus or subway, you are less likely to have a driver’s license.
IF you don't need a car because you get to the voting place then what is the problem with using some other form of photo ID? Again if they can get it for free and can get to the polling place via mass transit then they can get to the ID place via mass transit to get the free ID. If they don't have a car to get to the ID place, then how are they supposed to get to the polling place?
minorities may be more likely to have lost their driver’s licenses:
That's a responsibility thing and can strike anyone. No minority targeting there.
...the Brennan Center additionally reports that many voting centers are far away from minority voters and are rarely open.
What does this have to do with whether or not a photo ID is needed. This is an even worse red herring!
Academic studies suggest that voter ID laws do probably reduce turnout, both among Democrats and Republicans, but not by more than about 2 percent.
2 percent,if I recall correctly, is within the statistical margin of error So basically you're own evidence has just stated that any disenfranchisement is equally targeting both sides.
Looks like the second link is just another article on the same study and the PDF is the study itself. I shall have to study the study(no puns intended) itself when I get more of a chance.
Now I will say that I do agree that the requirement for exactly what type of photo ID is used should be widened a bit (like my wife's state worker's ID should be allowed) AND there should be a method that allowed people without reasonable access to obtain such ID's, like maybe a mobile gov't services unit. Hey I'm even all for having social services issuing official government photo ID's when people come in to register for food stamps or welfare. But as jamesrage pointed out, if your system is set such that you can't even measure fraud, then how can you catch it? And for that matter, if you don't have an ID how do you prevent a non-citizen from voting to counter a citizen's vote.