Jacques Corneille lives in Georgia

Years ago, signs like this were fairly common in the south:


But we've made great progress. Today, this is what you're more likely to see:


Jim Crow has many aliases.

No one knows how many adult Georgians do not have government-issued photo identification, and this year few questions are more politically loaded.

ID cards became the subject of passionate debate when the Legislature passed a Republican-sponsored law requiring all voters to show an official photo, such as a passport or driver's license. Previous Georgia law required that a voter show one of 17 different forms of ID, including utility bills and Social Security cards.

Civil rights organizations and Democratic leaders protested, arguing that as many as 153,000 Georgians — many of them poor, elderly or African American — would lose the right to vote. In Georgia's 159 counties, there are 54 offices that can grant a driver's license.