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Implementation of voter ID laws leaves some room for improvement, to understate it, and there's a reason why I put it last on the list. That said, it does appe
by andrewla 7y ago
Implementation of voter ID laws leaves some room for improvement, to understate it, and there's a reason why I put it last on the list. That said, it does appear that NC will accept student ids from most schools [1], thought of course it's possible that your daughter goes to a school that does not conform to the voter id standards.
The attack vector for signature-based roll verification is mostly along the lines of submitting votes for non-voting eligible voters, whose names can easily be harvested from voter rolls and looking at historical voting records (coupled, of course, with inside knowledge of which identities have already been used in previous election cycles, so appear to be active even though the agent in question knows that they are actually inactive). I don't know how common this is -- nobody does -- because it's almost impossible to detect without more information about who is voting. You may be right, and it may be insignificant.
It is easy for voter id to verge into voter suppression territory, but to throw an old meme on its side, "voter id is impossible to implement, says only country that does not implement voter id".
[1] https://www.ncsbe.gov/Voter-ID https://www.ncsbe.gov/Voter-ID
- js2 7y agoAmerica has a problem with too little voting, not too much. NC could just ask you to present your voter registration card. That would be sufficient in preventing the type of fraud you imagine, unless you imagine ID fraud too. And most school IDs, including all but two of the UNC schools, are not eligible. I assure you my daughter's school ID is not. The voter ID laws are a pretty transparent attempt to suppress Democratic votes. I'd be okay with IDs if they created zero additional friction in the voting process, but they do not.