Your assertion on how common voter fraud is contradic former NYC Democratic Commissioner of the Board of Elections Alan Schulkin which says it is prevalent in New York City, and he thinks there is a need for Voter ID laws: https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/117511800314022297...
This is a whole thread on how common fraud is: https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/11/13/elections-fraud-20...
And I’m not basing much of my world view on that guys unsubstantiated claims or three video clips posted on Project Veritas (a Conservative non-profit which receives funding from the Koch brothers).
There’s a tweet from Governor Abbot talking about investigating this issue from 2018. I conveniently see zero follow up as to the results of that investigation.
The source doesn't change the content of what they discovered, people caught red handed, or the statements made by officials such as NYC Democratic Commisioner Alan Schulkin.
I see no proof of people being caught redhanded and that’d be pretty easy to verify since voter fraud is a felony and they’d have a court cases.
It would take thousands of cases to sway most elections, so you’d need hundreds and hundreds of people to commit multiple felonies.
And yet somehow none of this giant conspiracy to manipulate voter fraud is leaking out? Seems implausible.
And they’d all need to assume identities of people already on the voter registration rolls.
So those hundreds of felons would have to somehow not take the vote of someone who would vote later that day, or someone who’d already voted.
This is a lot of work and a really grand conspiracy to keep under wraps.
It’s almost certainly easier, cheaper, and more effective to spread false narratives such as “voter fraud is a big issue and only Republicans care about the sacredness of _your_ vote” than it is to actually somehow find and organize enough people to make it worthwhile.
Maybe it is a different situation in India, but here the people proposing voter identification laws are doing so in bad faith.
They’re trying to make it harder to vote so elections are less fair, as opposed to making elections more fair by guaranteeing the sanctity of the individuals vote which is the position they’re pretending to be standing on.
In Norway, my home country, it has never been an issue in our 200 years as an independent country for anyone to get an ID to vote. And we used to be mostly dirt poor fishers and farmers that often lived in fairly isolated places.
Instituting the voter ID law makes it harder for 6.5% of people that rarely vote for Republicans to vote to prevent 0.000X% of votes cast fraudulently each election.
Do you get it now?
The reason why I think so is that people that are not poor can not lead their lives without a bank account due to the essentials for a non poor life requiring a bank account.
They don’t care about voter fraud. At all.
They care about adding enough shit together that they can win elections.
That is all they care about.
It is not in good faith. It is not about protecting the sanctity of elections.
It is about the opposite. They’ve never been able to show that voter fraud has ever affected an election.
They’re in it because even shaving a percentage of people from voting Democrat is worth it for them.
That is it. That’s the only reason.
Goodbye.
I haven’t seen Republicans calling for easy access to IDs though and their efforts to suppress voting from people who side with the left are notorious.
Their gerrymandered maps are being struck down in places like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and N. Carolina.
They conveniently close polling locations in minority neighborhoods.
They oppose election security bills. (McConnell until recently).
They oppose informing the public about election interference (McConnell).
Their PACs refuse to disclose donor information.
They’re pro dark money in elections.
Trump just tried to pressure the Ukranian leader for dirt on Biden.
The electoral college heavily favors Republicans and has given them at two Presidents in the last twenty years alone who lost the popular vote.
When Democrats are elected they’ll obstruct their Supreme Court nominations until they can put in their own.
The Senate heavily favors rural populations with the Dakota’s receiving four Senators with a population just over one million while California gets two with just under forty million people.
McConnell won’t even bring bills passed by the House to the floor of the Senate and has referred to himself as the Grim Reaper.
Republicans do not support making election days national holidays.
Republicans consistently try to scale back poll hours and early access voting.
Republicans are anti-democracy and a grave danger to our free nation at this point and it’s terrifying. They use every trick in the book to undermine the populace’s ability to elect leaders that do not serve the rich and the rich only. They stand for absolutely nothing except tax cuts, profits, unbridled corruption, and the selling off of America’s resources wholesale to the highest bidder.