Thrilla
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if you have an ID requirement, it's pretty tough to commit voter fraud.... if there is no ID requirement, it's just an honor system that stops you from committing it..... and prosecuting it in the unlikely event it is found out?.. pffft... near impossible... no witnesses, no ID on the suspect, the crime is over and done with quickly... yeah, finding out is tough, prosecuting is really really tough.The Bush administration spent millions investigating voter fraud and...
After a five-year hunt for voter fraud, the Bush administration's Justice Department came up with little widespread fraud, finding mostly cases of people mistakenly filling out voter registration forms or voting when they didn't know they were ineligible, The New York Times reported in 2007. But none of the cases involved a person voting as someone else.
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in any event, I find the claim of widespread voter fraud to be suspect .. and i find the claims that an ID requirement in an undue burden to be just as suspect.
i'm firmly in the " I don't give a **** either way" category....i'll vote, even if i have to bear the extraordinary burden of showing an ID.