SWA #18

Local: State requiring voter identification in order to vote
http://www.wistv.com/story/15881001/voter-id-ads-overlook-absentee-option

I am leaning towards this issue because I like what the state of South Carolina is doing with the identification. I think it is actually quite dumb that this is not required in every state in the U.S. I can also open this issue up to a broader issue the only reason why it is my local was because I first discovered it through the discussion about South Carolina recently going to this method.

Global: Illegal Immigrants coming to the US
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1804127?seq=2
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3002344

This was the easiest to find information for because it is such a global issue. The information was very broad however and I do not find this quite as interesting. In the end I thought it would be better if I picked a different issue.

Whether college athletes should be paid to play
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/tndl65&div=16&g_sent=1&collection=journals

I really like this issue but I just can not seem to find enough information. It is fairly young and I do not know if I would be able to write 5-7 pages. This issue definitly interests me however and I feel as though in a couple more years once college athletics starts trying to deal with the issues instead of having just "investigations" this would be a very good topic to write about.