I’m confused. There is a demand for voters to be compelled to show ID to vote at the polls to prevent the supposed multitude of people voting illegally. Have those who advocate this ever voted?
For an illegal or unregistered person to vote, they will have to approach a poll without an ID. Easy enough, but they will also have to successfully offer to the pollster a name that is already recorded at the polling place and then proceed to deceive the pollster that they are this person. A person who they miraculously somehow already know is on the voter registration rolls.
Moreover, for the fraudster, the actual registered voter whom they are impersonating must not have previously voted that day or their scheme is kaput. If successful, the fraudster must still hope the actual voter does not arrive later that day to vote or the true voter will find out they have already voted.
I ask therefore, over the years and years that voter ID has been championed, how many millions of voters have complained that someone pretended to have voted for them?
I would argue that voter ID is a solution to a non-problem. Illegal or non-registered voters cannot and have not been voting by the millions for years and years.
Kenneth A. LaSota
Heidelberg