> Without ID there's no way you can even know that's happening.
Untrue. If you have voter rolls and a system that records the identities used in voting so that only one person can vote under a given identity, and go further and make those lists public so that everyone can know which identities voted in any given election, its quite possible to identify cases of people voting under other people's identities without voter ID requirements. In fact, unless you have IDs that can never be forged or stolen by people who can pass for the identified person, you still need all those features to catch people trying to vote under someone else's identity even with voter ID.
I mention that because the status quo system in all US jurisdictions I am familiar with already has these features.
The particular problem that "voter ID" is supposed to address is (1) a problem that the status quo is set up to detect, (2) a problem for which there is no evidence that it exists in any significant way in the status quo, and (3) a problem for which voter ID is not much of a solution even if it did exist.
> If you have voter rolls and a system that records the identities used in voting so that only one person can vote under a given identity, and go further and make those lists public so that everyone can know which identities voted in any given election, its quite possible to identify cases of people voting under other people's identities without voter ID requirements.
How? How do you know when someone has voted under someone else's name?
Untrue. If you have voter rolls and a system that records the identities used in voting so that only one person can vote under a given identity, and go further and make those lists public so that everyone can know which identities voted in any given election, its quite possible to identify cases of people voting under other people's identities without voter ID requirements. In fact, unless you have IDs that can never be forged or stolen by people who can pass for the identified person, you still need all those features to catch people trying to vote under someone else's identity even with voter ID.
I mention that because the status quo system in all US jurisdictions I am familiar with already has these features.
The particular problem that "voter ID" is supposed to address is (1) a problem that the status quo is set up to detect, (2) a problem for which there is no evidence that it exists in any significant way in the status quo, and (3) a problem for which voter ID is not much of a solution even if it did exist.