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There is voter fraud in the US. It's small but it exists. There is virtually no voter ID fraud. Why are the Republicans going after fraud which doesn't exist while ignoring real fraud?
You know something as SIMPLE and AS IMPORTANT AS VOTING in AMERICA you would think a system would be in place by 2012 will all the CRAP government spends money on they could create State VOTING CARDS free of charge!
You want to vote do your part and stop being lazy and get a ID! I have a voter ID card slip they sent it into the mail to ME is that so HARD!
Okay, so you are judging everybody else's situation by your own.
Nothing "hard" about it if given some time. These last-minute laws were hurriedly put in place by repugs in the hope that many people, whether elderly, would run out of time before they could secure i.d. If you want i.d. then institute laws at the beginning of electoral terms - not at the end. This is just another slimy republican maneuver - a real attempt at undermining the democracy which they hate.
Here again, there is virtually zero fraud by walk-in voters, and repugs know it. A trumped-up "solution" to no problem.
However there is other fraud which repubs strangely don't care about. Notice these have nothing to do with voter i.d. There are too many links like this to post. Investigation into Trashed Voter Registrations - 8 News NOW Voter fraud suspected in East Longmeadow race - Boston.com
How would you know if there is voter fraud if you don't check for ID? There is no way of knowing if the person voting is committing fraud.
For one, the potential problem is other than voter i.d. - such as rigging elections, and behind-the-scenes corruption - much more extensive ramifications. See above. Who Can Vote? - A News21 2012 National Project
There is voter fraud in the US. It's small but it exists. There is virtually no voter ID fraud. Why are the Republicans going after fraud which doesn't exist while ignoring real fraud?
Some blue states were the first to enact photo ID laws with the Democrats doing it.....why only outrage when Republicans do it?
Actually in the court case we are talking about it was established that over 750 thousand register voters in PA lack an approved government photo ID.
I'm confident a whole lot - perhaps most - of these 750K registered voters without ID are what is euphemistically called "deadwood".
Voter deadwood refers to registered voters who aren't really around to vote. Voters move out of the state all the time - hasn't PA had net outmigration over the last couple decades or so?
Also there are surely dead people still registered to vote, these people are removed from the voter rolls more slowly in some places than in others.
Theoretically, when voters move out of state they reregister in their new state and the appropriate election office in their new state sends a cancellation to their old state (county usually).
Things often don't go as smoothly as theory suggests they should, and a lot of people remain registered in their old state and county for years after they've moved out, because the cancellation never made it back to the right place.
Deadwood usually doesn't vote because it's not around locally to do so, and if it does, that's fraud.
There is also in-state deadwood consisting of people who moved from one county to another and are registered in two or more counties, but this should generally be detected and resolved by checking voter registrations against the state driver file, which presumably has already been done in PA.
So a whole lot of those 750K won't be voting this year, and when the deadwood component of that 750K doesn't vote, at least that part can't be blamed on voter ID.
Well, lets hope they have inserted into the bill, ways for people who lack mobility to be able to easily obtain a photo ID if they do not have one yet. And let's hope they do a good job of informing the people how and where they can obtain an ID.
If they can get to the polls on a regular basis, then they can get to DL center to get ID, it is only a one tie deal and there is plenty of time.
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