Sorry Gray Newman, Voting Rights can be taken away, so in way

One fact that is lost on many people who point out all the things you have to have an ID to do is that voting is a right, not a privilege. Buying alcohol, driving, flying and even cashing checks are privileges with no guarantee that you get to do them.

Voting is a right that is guaranteed by our national and state constitutions. Over 400,000 voters in North Carolina do not have state-issued IDs, most of them poor and/or elderly. Do we really want to deny these people their constitutionally guaranteed rights?

Gray Newman

This is one of many so-called constitutions that is striped from those whom have been convicted of a felony. most of the time for life.

From Wikipedia.org

Prisoner voting rights is a state issue, so the laws are different from state to state. Some states allow only individuals on probation and ex-felons to vote. Others allow individuals on parole, probation and ex-felons to vote. As of July 2007, fourteen states, eleven of them in the South, ban anyone with a felony conviction from voting for life, even after the person has served the sentence, while only two states, Maine and Vermont, allow incarcerated individuals to vote.

According to the Sentencing Project, 5.3 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of a felony conviction ("felony disenfranchisement"). The number of people disenfranchised amounts to approximately 2.42% of the otherwise-eligible voting population.[citation needed] This is in sharp contrast to European nations, like Norway, which allow ex-felons to vote after serving sentences and in some cases allow prisoners to vote. Prisoners have been allowed to vote in Canada since 2002.

The United States has a higher proportion of its population in prison than any other Western nation, and more than Russia or China. The dramatic rise in the rate of incarceration in the United States, a 500% increase from the 1970s to the 1990s due to criminalization of certain behaviors, strict sentencing guidelines and changes in philosophy, has vastly increased the number of people disfranchised because of the felon provisions. Given the prison populations, the effects have been most disadvantageous for minority and poor communities.

These are the true disenfranchisement.