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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by astrange on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:38PM (#31671104)
It’s because the people who want voter ID also want to make it harder to get an ID and won’t accept student IDs but will accept eg your gun club ID.

Banning mail in ballots doesn’t sound like much of a good policy.

Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by AaronM on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:19PM (#31672602)
Correct. Most progressives would have no issue with voter ID, as long as the states make it very easy and zero cost to get said ID. Try being poor and needing an ID, and not having all of the documentation needed. It's very challenging to do so.
Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by jaywalk on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:49PM (#31671304)
> It’s because the people who want voter ID also want to make it harder to get an ID

BS.

> and won’t accept student IDs.

Nor should they.

> Banning mail in ballots doesn’t sound like much of a good policy.

Why? Do you disagree that fraud is easier with mail-in ballots?

Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by shadowgovt on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:21PM (#31671842)
Perhaps worth noting: the fraud perpetrated in this story was completely independent of mail-in ballots.

In Pennsylvania, mail-in ballots don't even pass through the level of the bureaucracy that was bribed to compromise the in-person vote totals.

"Do mail-in ballots make fraud easier" is a multi-dimensional question. At some level of resolution, everything that makes exercising the right to vote easier makes fraud easier. US history is too rife with examples of attempts to deny the right to vote under surface-level-sound justifications to take any such question at face value.

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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by eropple on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:22PM (#31672655)
> We watched in real time the 2020 election be stolen

No, you didn't. You have been had. HTH.

Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by vkou on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:22PM (#31672650)
By which you surely mean that we watched in real time a failed attempt on January 6th to steal the election?
Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by astrange on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @09:59PM (#31676800)
> BS.

Nah, typical Texas behavior, along with overregulation of voter drives and arresting anyone who tries too hard to do it. To deny voter IDs you typically shut down DMVs in areas you don't want getting too many of them.

> Why? Do you disagree that fraud is easier with mail-in ballots?

It certainly enables some kinds of it (like forcing your family members to vote a certain way) but also makes some kinds harder (putting the voting site in someone's house and intimidating anyone who drives up). It's very popular in most places it's been tried, and probably a good tradeoff anywhere with rural populations.