L L wrote:
PIO! wrote:
This is something that I have never understood. To me it seems like having voters identify themselves is commonsensical. Without having to provide ID, what keeps someone from voting many times in many places or non-citizens from voting? Also, what is so onerous about showing a driver's license or state ID card?
I'm sure that there must be some "obvious" answer to these questions. So I am prepared to learn a bit here.
What keeps people from voting many times in many places (as differerent people) is that they need to know exactly who has or hasn't voted and beat all of them to the polls. And there is only so much time in the day to cast more than a handful of votes. It would take a massive conspiracy to coordinate enough people willing to do this to have any effect on an outcome. It's just not worth it.
And it's a crime. Certainly not worth deportation for a non-citizen to cast a single vote as someone else and know who is registered where and beat them to the polls.
So voter fraud through impersonation without an ID simply doesn't happen at any material level.
However, there is a much higher and possibly material amount of voters that do not have up to date ID's who would be denied their constitutional right to vote.
So the strict voter ID laws trade denying a number of people their rights in order to guard for an unlikely occurance.
Free lesson for you.
LL, you're a delusional lost soul with zero hope. Your constant complaining about Trump and claiming that Hillary was innocent is all anyone needs to know about you.
You're another liberal free stuff maggot who knows zilch about politics.
I'm so glad to check in here once every couple weeks and see you and the other 5 losers complaining over and over and implying that any of you have a clue as to the outcome.
Trump is no different than Obummer, Clinton, Bush or even your precious girl Hillary Clinton.
You've lost the true meaning of life. Do you really think anyone cares about the dribble that you post? Newsflash: The don't;)
Find a hobby. Go work in a soup kitchen. Learn another language. The time you take to post your garbage and the fact that only you and your friends read it must be depressing. Get help---soon!