The voter id requirments is my biggest problem with the new bill.
There are two things we know:
1) voter fraud is not an issue. Look for cases where the vouching system is abused.
2) increasing ID requirments will disenfranchise some voters.
Since number 2 is true, regardless of reason, we shouldnt disenfranchise people without a compelling reason. The spector of voter fraud is not a compelling reason to cause 100k people not to vote.
And remember if a person is trying to rig a close election by bussing 500 voters to different poles, making up fake names and addresses, having another person memorize these fake details and vouch for those people, and then having no one leak that this occurred they are probably willing to go one step further and fake some utility bills.
More votes are miscounted then there is voter fraud.
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