its sorta hard to measure voter fraud. If you do it and get away with it, only you and the old vote count knows cause its not something most folks brag about. the lack of id requirment makes it easy for the faud voter to vote more than once. In fact there is no limit as to how many times a person votes long as they don't go back to the same place to vote. you wonder what kind of person can go through life without an id, and how many without the old ID would bother to get one if they were made available like they are here in california.
you kinda wonder if a person can get on welfare without any ID. Heck if a person can figure out how to vote a few times, they might also be able to get welfare for the made up people they were when they voted.
There have been cases of Welfare Fraud and it’s common knowledge that it still takes place today. One woman here in California, got millions in Welfare by lying about minor children she didn’t have. She used children once borrowed from a friend, then they went back to their own homes. This was many years back and it made the papers. Maybe you remember?
With today’s technology one can forge a birth certificate, a drivers license or a high school diploma. Given the right computer program, that is.
Fraudulent voting is taking place, just not being caught. That would require all voters be screened and investigated. We don’t have the resources to do that.
That is the reason a voter ID be place, to ensure the person voting, is legally entitled to vote.
Pure and simple, and easy for most to understand. It’s the way of the twenty first century.
Although, some would like us to live in the past, trust everybody will be honest and think a voter ID would be too much trouble for the minor percentage that it would adversely affect.
