Voter Fraud or Voter Suppression

Not too long ago in the South, where I live, and in much of the rest of the nation, a voter didn’t need to worry about carrying identification to the polls on Election Day. My, how things have changed. Today, voter ID laws have spread across the nation like kudzu, from Alabama to Alaska. But coming from Georgia (a state with something of a record of disenfranchising her people) I have to ask: Is voter ID needed to prevent voter fraud or are these laws a way to suppress the vote? There are reasons to suspect the latter.