The issue with this is that there is evidence of actual crimes.
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Heritage has found an average of 30 cases of voter fraud per year. That's out of maybe 125 million voters on average. And, that includes at least a dozen states, run by Republicans, who have aggressively looked for voter fraud over the past 5-10 years.
For those who can't do math, that means 0.000024% of all votes in a given year are fraudulent.
That does not justify disenfranchising voters in the name of fraud reduction.
Not much different than the practices they followed in the segregated South. I guess old habits are hard to break.
Yeah, sorry, but that's bull****.
1) Today's Fraud Hunters propose using many of the same tactics that the segregationists used to disenfranchise voters.
2) After the Democrats passed the Civil Rights acts in the 1960s, many of those segregationists gradually migrated to the Republican Party. Black voters, we should note, did the opposite -- in the 1930s, black voter identification was much more evenly split (44% D vs 37% R), and it gradually shifted to very heavily Democrats by the late 1960s.
3) I hate to break this to you, but it's the Democrats who are currently focusing on making sure everyone can vote. They push for expanded voting hours; more polling places; pushed for the Motor Voter Act of 1993, and more.
Republicans are doing the opposite. They try to restrict and shorten voting periods. They eliminate polling places, triggering lawsuits in some areas. There is some talk of repealing the MVA. Texas passed a voter ID law that would have prevented up to 600,000 legitimate voters from casting ballots.
The reality is that there is remarkably little voter fraud in the US. It is not the 1930s, when machines from both parties marched faithful voters into buses, shuttling them from one polling station to the next, to vote for their preferred candidate. Massive national efforts, which are thinly disguised attempts to block minorities and poor citizens from voting, are not justified.