Reply To: I voted today. Tell me about the fraud.

ujm – The JFK election was 60 years ago. Voter records were not computerized. Earlier in the century people voted by standing in front of the box for the candidate they supported and putting in a piece of paper. Votes were not secret, so (for example) bosses could see who their employees voted for, and threaten their job if the voted for the “wrong” candidate. We, as a country, evolve.

Democrats oppose voter ID laws that are designed to discriminate against distinct populations (students, the elderly, the poor, rural voters). In Georgia I can use my state-issued gun license as my ID, but not a state-issued university student ID. You’ll recall in 2016 when that Republican member of the Pennsylvania state legislature said out loud that the purpose of the voter ID law was to make sure Trump won. It has nothing to do with vote security. Every Democrat that I’ve suggested the Israel model to agrees that it would be fine. Every citizen has a photo ID they get when they’re 16 (or 18, whatever), the ID is free, it is easy to get, and every state accepts it as valid.

Further, as I explained above and as every serious study has shown, voter ID laws do not decrease the number of voter fraud cases in a state (a number that is miniscule already). Pennsylvania has a voter ID law and that Republican got caught trying to vote for Trump on his mother’s signature.