But...well, turns out I was wrong and one of the twenty people charged with voter fraud in the 2008 Wisconsin election was indeed casting a dead person's vote (http://badgerherald.com/news/2011/02/01/doj_task_force_charg.php), which of course is an identity issue. That's one person discovered after a voter fraud task force combed through eleven counties, so regardless of whether it's generally investigated, in this case it was, and these were the results. Requiring ID for over 5.5 million people because one person in that group was discovered to have committed identity-related voter fraud does not seem like a logical sequence of events to me, I don't know about you. Twice as many people voted twice, a problem not prevented by this law. Six times as many committed "voter registration misconduct"--apparently by lying about citizenship status, though I'm just trying to read between the lines on that one so I may be wrong--which is not prevented by this law. Eleven times as many were convicted felons who voted, a problem not prevented by this law.
And, once this law is put in place anyway, not spreading the news that it costs $0 to comply with it and vote--indeed, firing employees for attempting to do so--sounds less logical still. Still haven't heard a good reason for this; the extra work and confusion you claim it will generate from people who think a voter ID functions as a regular ID could not be easier to avoid.
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Date: 10/9/11 16:51 (UTC)But...well, turns out I was wrong and one of the twenty people charged with voter fraud in the 2008 Wisconsin election was indeed casting a dead person's vote (http://badgerherald.com/news/2011/02/01/doj_task_force_charg.php), which of course is an identity issue. That's one person discovered after a voter fraud task force combed through eleven counties, so regardless of whether it's generally investigated, in this case it was, and these were the results. Requiring ID for over 5.5 million people because one person in that group was discovered to have committed identity-related voter fraud does not seem like a logical sequence of events to me, I don't know about you. Twice as many people voted twice, a problem not prevented by this law. Six times as many committed "voter registration misconduct"--apparently by lying about citizenship status, though I'm just trying to read between the lines on that one so I may be wrong--which is not prevented by this law. Eleven times as many were convicted felons who voted, a problem not prevented by this law.
And, once this law is put in place anyway, not spreading the news that it costs $0 to comply with it and vote--indeed, firing employees for attempting to do so--sounds less logical still. Still haven't heard a good reason for this; the extra work and confusion you claim it will generate from people who think a voter ID functions as a regular ID could not be easier to avoid.