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In response to
"Here's the thing: I know, but cannot prove, some local elections I've been involved with have had oddities to them."
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I can't speak to your voter issues, but keep in mind that this protects against only 1 very specific type of voter fraud. That is where somebody
Posted by
pmb (aka pmb)
Feb 15 '17, 14:42
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shows up to vote in the place of another registered voter. If that was happening regularly you would think you would have lots of instances of 2 people showing up to vote under the same registration. It doesn't happen. Consider also that voter ID is not required for absentee ballots. You would view that as ripe for fraud (again, voter ID laws would not solve that). But you would expect again people to show up to vote for whom an absentee ballot was already cast. It doesn't happen. To really make voter fraud work in meaningful numbers there would need to be quite a bit of cooperation and number involved. We see no evidence of that. Apocryphal anecdotal stories are always floated (thousands bussed in from MA to vote in NH), but there's no evidence of it. I get the gut reaction, but disenfranchising tens if not hundreds of thousands to solve for these things is ludicrous. I get that you want to find a painless and universally easy answer to it and if you can then I'll listen, but until you do, voter ID laws make no sense and are damaging to our democracy.
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