> Don't just throw away a good idea because of past abuse.

The specific (Alabama) “past abuse” referred to by the grandparent was in 2011-2015, not some distant time where there has been intervening radical change in the political culture that would render it irrelevant.

> Don't just throw away a good idea

The whole idea was voter suppression. There is no good idea associated with Voter ID laws in the United States. People involved in them this decade have admitted the racial and partisan purpose (usually, when they thought only members of their race and party were around, obviously.)