It's definitely more widespread than that, because it's so impossible to really look for unless you have some sort of real hint.
But not in Wisconsin. They looked, and this is what they found. (Not sure what's so impossible about comparing signatures, by the way.) I'm not sure how to put this more plainly. This is actual data on the pervasiveness of identity-related voter fraud in Wisconsin, discovered by people looking specifically for it. It finds that it is not a big problem, and that other forms of fraud not covered by this law were as much as eleven times more common in the 2008 election (and still not a big problem).
That this was a fairly national issue tells me this isn't an issue of "spreading the news."
If by "fairly national issue" you mean "a nationally covered news story," it wasn't as far as I've seen. The law was, and now this discovery of an officially mandated ban on telling people about the free voter ID without being prompted by them, but in between I can't find any big story about the introduction/existence of the free voter ID. Feel free to provide any; I could be wrong.
You have a much higher faith in humanity than I.
On the other hand, I'm not the one who trusts five and a half million citizens to be up on every detail of a three-month-old law when the place they'd be most likely to learn the details has employees instructed not to tell them.
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But not in Wisconsin. They looked, and this is what they found. (Not sure what's so impossible about comparing signatures, by the way.) I'm not sure how to put this more plainly. This is actual data on the pervasiveness of identity-related voter fraud in Wisconsin, discovered by people looking specifically for it. It finds that it is not a big problem, and that other forms of fraud not covered by this law were as much as eleven times more common in the 2008 election (and still not a big problem).
That this was a fairly national issue tells me this isn't an issue of "spreading the news."
If by "fairly national issue" you mean "a nationally covered news story," it wasn't as far as I've seen. The law was, and now this discovery of an officially mandated ban on telling people about the free voter ID without being prompted by them, but in between I can't find any big story about the introduction/existence of the free voter ID. Feel free to provide any; I could be wrong.
You have a much higher faith in humanity than I.
On the other hand, I'm not the one who trusts five and a half million citizens to be up on every detail of a three-month-old law when the place they'd be most likely to learn the details has employees instructed not to tell them.