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You don't just show up and vote pretty much anywhere any more and when you're put on the list of registered voters the information is freely out there to be cha
by rtkwe 7y ago
You don't just show up and vote pretty much anywhere any more and when you're put on the list of registered voters the information is freely out there to be challenged and validated against many other sources. People do this a lot and yet most of the errors found are things like misspellings, old registrations without any votes since the new registration was made (ie someone moved and they were still on the roles at their old location) and similar small largely inconsequential errors.
> The number of known voter fraud incidents is very small.
Don't forget there was a whole presidential commission set up after 2016 to hunt for any signs of voter fraud and they found, as far as I recall, nothing.
Again I'm not against ID in spirit but the implementation never attempts to make sure that every voter has an ID. Fundamentally that's the issue to me with voter ID laws; in the absence of any evidence of consequential voter fraud it's just another tactic to limit the ability to vote for political gain.
- pdonis 7y ago> the implementation never attempts to make sure that every voter has an ID I would be fine with requiring voting jurisdictions to make reasonable efforts to do this if ID will be required to vote. I would also be fine with providing federal funds to allow, for example, increased resources at DMVs or other ID issuing facilities to support this.