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> It’s because the people who want voter ID also want to make it harder to get an ID BS. > and won’t accept student IDs. Nor should they. > Banning mail in

> It’s because the people who want voter ID also want to make it harder to get an ID BS. > and won’t accept student IDs. Nor should they. > Banning mail in ballots doesn’t sound like much of a good policy. Why? Do you disagree that fraud is easier with mail-in ballots?

shadowgovt 4y ago
Perhaps worth noting: the fraud perpetrated in this story was completely independent of mail-in ballots. In Pennsylvania, mail-in ballots don't even pass through the level of the bureaucracy that was bribed to compromise the in-person vote totals. "Do mail-in ballots make fraud easier" is a multi-dimensional question. At some level of resolution, everything that makes exercising the right to vote easier makes fraud easier. US history is too rife with examples of attempts to deny the right to vote under surface-level-sound justifications to take any such question at face value.
- pyronik19 4y ago
  - vkou 4y ago
    By which you surely mean that we watched in real time a failed attempt on January 6th to steal the election?
  - eropple 4y ago
    > We watched in real time the 2020 election be stolen No, you didn't. You have been had. HTH.
astrange 4y ago
> BS. Nah, typical Texas behavior, along with overregulation of voter drives and arresting anyone who tries too hard to do it. To deny voter IDs you typically shut down DMVs in areas you don't want getting too many of them. > Why? Do you disagree that fraud is easier with mail-in ballots? It certainly enables some kinds of it (like forcing your family members to vote a certain way) but also makes some kinds harder (putting the voting site in someone's house and intimidating anyone who drives up). It's very popular in most places it's been tried, and probably a good tradeoff anywhere with rural populations.