edit: I didn't mean to be insensitive. minority rights including gay marriage and women's rights are defiantly important and heavily debated civil rights issues. The blanket term "Civil Rights" just dosen't seem to be used to describe those issues very often these days.
I'm not in favor of putting too many burdens on the right to vote, and I'm honestly not sure where the balance lies: it's not clear how much fraud does occur, and it's not clear to me how much people are burdened by laws requiring ID (I suspect both are edge cases, but how do they compare in magnitude; what about the risk presented by each?). I just think it's necessary to keep in mind that there really is another side to the story.
[1] http://troyrecord.com/articles/2009/09/27/news/doc4abec35414...
[2] http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/286557/yes-virginia-the...
Of course, there are people's jobs at stake here.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-13/wisconsin-voter-id-...
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/most_restr...
It's unfortunate, because such things make great smokescreens while at the same time being so polarizing (wrongfully so) that they blot out more other grave matters and attract crazies that impede genuine progress in gender policy.
EDIT: fixed some bad grammar.