In this letter to the editor, the author writes: “I went to the Brighton Secretary of State Office on Aug. 6 and, according to a very pleasant and helpful employee, the cost of a state photo ID is $10 and must be renewed every four years. Three very ordinary and common pieces of proof of identity also are required. If someone cannot afford $2.50 per year, they probably cannot afford a newspaper, radio or TV and are, therefore, unlikely to be well- informed about the election issues anyway.”