Yeah, but it's a different situation which you might have meant, but I can't tell. As a French-American who voted in both elections, voter id is no issue in France. Everybody has a national ID card and keep it with them at all times. Showing it to vote is no issue. In the US, some people have passports and some have driver's licenses. There is no requirement to have them, and if you don't, you've been able to vote forever. And there are millions of citizens who have neither.

It is no accident that places in the US that try to enact voter ID laws are places with large populations of poor people, who are likely to have neither form of id, nor be aware of recent changes in the law. I would have no problem with the US instituting a national ID card, spending a few election cycles making sure that everybody has one, and then requiring showing one at a voting booth. But the reason that some politicians want to jump straight to a mandatory voter id without first handing out an id to everybody are only doing it to repress votes that they think will go against them.