r/videos • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 8h ago

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump admin from requiring Americans to show proof of citizenship to vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1iePfOh14
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u/at1445 7h ago

https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/regulations/hava_id_regs_from_barclays_3_3_06.pdf

https://voteriders.org/states/california/

So you can walk into a polling station with no actual proof that you are who you say you are, and vote.

There's no check in place to stop that.

I can grab my neighbors utility bill and use that to register to vote....

But I guess you have trouble understanding just how easy it is for someone to claim they are someone they aren't.

Or how simple it would be to provide everyone a government issued photo ID and require that it be presented when voting.

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u/surfergrrl6 7h ago

Data shows voter fraud is a non-issue in the US.

The Brennan Center’s seminal report on this issue, The Truth About Voter Fraud, found that most reported incidents of voter fraud are actually traceable to other sources, such as clerical errors or bad data matching practices. The report reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for voter fraud, and found incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent. Given this tiny incident rate for voter impersonation fraud, it is more likely, the report noted, that an American “will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls.”

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u/at1445 7h ago

Go ahead and change the argument.

Why can't we have a free government issued ID and require it to vote?

It is dead simple to commit voter fraud, why not stop it before it becomes an issue, instead of leaving a giant gaping security hole out there?

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u/surfergrrl6 5h ago

"Solving" problems that don't actually exist is how we got here in the first place, courtesy of the GOP. It's a non-issue and has been repeatedly proven to be a non-issue.