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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by skrowl on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:55PM (#22240853)
With strong voter ID. Paper ballots do you no good if you can't verify that they were cast by a real person that was eligible to vote in that area, and that they only voted once.
Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by LargeWu on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:13PM (#22241040)
This is, in reality, a virtually nonexistent problem. It's often used as a rationale for voter suppression, though.
Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by tathougies on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:31PM (#22241201)
False: not having voter ID is used as a rationale for voter ressurection though: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/10/27/2-investigators-chic...
Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by cyphar on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:04AM (#22245470)
Courts found that the North Carolina voter ID laws were designed to be discriminatory[1]. Same in Texas[2]. So it's definitely true in at least two cases that voter ID laws were provably designed for voter suppression.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/north-c... [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/texas-voter-...

Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by LargeWu on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:52AM (#22247833)
Not only provably, but explicitly. Voter suppression was the primary intent.
Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by cyphar on Sunday February 09, 2020 @08:47PM (#22285746)
Something being provably true is a higher bar than it being explicitly stated (because an explicit statement isn't enough to prove something to be true). I agree that voter suppression was the primary intent, but the legislation wasn't called "The Illegal Voter Suppression Act 2013".
Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by skrowl on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:51AM (#22247092)
> a virtually nonexistent problem

Watch Broward County FL this November. Whole boxes of filled out ballots will be "found" mysteriously. Just like every election.

Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by LargeWu on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:27AM (#22247511)
That is election fraud, perpetrated by the people running the elections themselves, not voter fraud. If you can't trust the people running the elections, then no amount of voter ID is going to matter.
Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by jedberg on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:31PM (#22241785)
In 2016 there were only four confirmed cases where people voted who should not have and would have been stoped with voter ID.

All four voted for Trump, but that's not super relevant. What's relevant is that it was four out of 127,000,000 votes. Even if the problem were 1,000 times worse then we know it still would have had no effect on the election, even if they were all in Wisconsin.