Adinnieken on 25 September 2012
The problem with voter ID fraud is that it doesn't exist as widespread as people believe.
In actuality, voter ID fraud occurs 1/10th of 1% of the time. If 50% of the US population voted, that would mean 15,000 instances of voter ID fraud happened. That's 300 instances in every state.
The question is, should we enact laws that disenfranchise some voters because we're afraid of an election hinging on 300 votes?
Maybe what needs to happen is we look at what each state does, identify what works well and what doesn't, and change laws nationally to fix inequities. But right now, the biggest problem with voter ID fraud is the perception that it happens far more often than reality has proven it does.
