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While I believe the amount of in-person fraud to be small, we don't have mechanism to prove that. If I choose not to vote and and someone else pretends to be me and votes at the polls (since they don't need to show ID), there's nothing that will show that fraud occurred, and there's no way after the fact to determine what the level of such fraud was.
That's not quite true, though I agree that this is the most difficult form of in-person voting fraud to detect. Even that can sometimes be detected through signature matching or being recognized at the polls, but I agree both are minor risks.
That said, however, they are not zero risk which is why it is an unlikely scenario. In such cases of collusion or inside knowledge, it is easier and less risky to submit absentee ballots rather than voting in-person multiple times. This is really the single biggest hole in all the potential in-person fraud scenarios: one can evade any voter ID laws by using absentee ballots, reducing both effort and risk in the process. In-person voting fraud simply makes no sense because it is extremely inefficient.
Baloney, there is no proof of this, there are assertions of such a possibility, usually by leftists.
"Proof" is a loaded word since it can't be provided until after the fact. There is a substantial body of vetted evidence that disenfranchisement is absolutely the result, however, including evidence provided in multiple court cases. If you want the truth, it is available.
Aside from idiotic nonsense about "suppression cheerleaders" and other such drivel,
I certainly understand why you object to being portrayed that way, yet it is accurate. By advocating for these voter suppression laws, you are, in fact, a suppression cheerleader. I cannot judge your intent, and it may well be that you aren't intending to support voter suppression, but the result is the same.
I don't think there's much debate that there is much more potential for fraud with absentee ballots. I'm in favor of good controls around all forms of voting (absentee, in person, whatever, it doesn't matter).
Good, me too. I even favor reducing the possibility of in-person voter fraud ... if we can find ways to do so where the cost, both to taxpayers and potentially disenfranchised voters, are notably less than the benefits achieved. Given the miniscule incidence of in-person voter fraud, however, those costs will need to be trivial.
OP must be racist, homophobic, sexist, genderist or whatever is currently most politically incorrect"
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