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Originally posted by bilmore
Republicans have been pointing and yelling at vote fraud for years. Historically, the proven cases have not been R's, but D's. Heck, in this last election, D's have come up with lots of scenarios which could be explained by fraud, but all of the actually-proven cases seem to be of D's. For an R to speak too loudly about vote fraud is to invoke the "you're denying us the vote" mantra. I would argue that we need pre-registration, state-supplied photo ID's at the polls, and no absentee ballots at all - but we're not gonna go there, because that would infringe on peoples' right to vote in other names, I guess.
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The things that you say we need don't do anything to address the problems described in Hitchens' article.
I don't have a problem with legitimate measures to prevent vote fraud. But I'm also not convinced that there is a big problem with people showing up pretending to be someone else. Hey, persuade me. And absentee ballots clearly have a risk of fraud to them, but they also are important for ensuring that people can vote.
Too often Republicans support measures purportedly aimed at vote fraud because they will also make it more difficult to vote, and because the populations whose vote is thereby suppressed most tend to vote for Democrats.
And from where I'm sitting the magnitude of the potential problems Hitchens describes vastly exceeds the sorts of problems you're talking about.
