PIO! wrote:
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
The point of strict voter ID regulations is to discourage moderate voters. Discouraging voters is part of a minority party strategy to remain in power.
This is something that I have never understood. To me it seems like having voters identify themselves is commonsensical. Without having to provide ID, what keeps someone from voting many times in many places or non-citizens from voting? Also, what is so onerous about showing a driver's license or state ID card?
I'm sure that there must be some "obvious" answer to these questions. So I am prepared to learn a bit here.
The bolded part is beyond scary, but it demonstrates how successful Trump has been in brainwashing people toward what is real and what is not real, what is possible and what is not possible.
Do you actually believe a vote merely goes into the system and is recorded, with no other record of it, and no checks in place? Apparently Trump supporters do believe in that type of fantasyland, one that allows voters to hop skip and jump from one polling place to another, casting as many votes as they wish, along with millions of illegal immigrants bombarding our system with votes that should never count.
Trump pushed the themes so relentlessly during his 2016 rallies that at least two supporters were actually gullible enough to put it in place. I believe it was one woman in Iowa and another woman in Texas. They thought that multiple votes for Trump were fine and dandy. After all, thousands of Democrats do it, along with those millions of immigrants.
Here's what actually happened: The system caught it immediately. The look on her face is priceless, after pleading guilty. You mean Trump steered me the wrong way? How is that possible?
And the same thing would have happened to anyone else who tried to double or triple vote. Voter fraud is an absolute myth, one clutched by deplorables and lower. There are fewer than 15 recorded instances of actual voter fraud in the United States since 2000.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/07/07/iowa-woman-charged-voting-twice-trump-pleads-guilty/459718001/