While some 21 million legal voters -mostly minorities, students and some elderly -do not have the sort of state-issued Photo ID that would be required under such laws, polling place impersonation, in fact, is extremely rare.Of far greater danger to elections, at least in the realm of voter fraud, is absentee voting, which most of the proposed bills do not address. The greatest danger of all is posed by insider election fraud, which can be carried out by a single administrator or voting machine company employee with the ability to completely change the results of an election with a few key strokes, and very little possibility of detection.Polling place Photo ID restrictions of the type being pushed by Republicans across the country, and already in place in Indiana, would have no effect on voter fraud criminals like Charlie White. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)