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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
My link disproves most if not all prior posts about fraud not being an issue and voter ID laws not being able to fix most of it.
Wrong. Your link is evidence that you have a relatively low likelihood of being caught IF you commit voter impersonation in NYC. Nothing more.
Of course, the incentive to commit voter impersonation is very small when compared to the felony charge and potential jail time associated with getting caught. 3% seems quite high in that calculus.
And even if we take your 97% figure as accurate across the board nationally (of course absurdly unscientific, but for the sake of argument), that would mean of the handful of voter impersonation cases that get brought annually (every source has this number well under 10 per year), these correspond to an actual number of fraudulent votes somewhere in the hundreds, maybe a thousand if they're casting votes as several other people. This is out of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of votes cast annually.
Here is a report from the Heritage Foundation, who very much favor strict voter ID:
https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2...-15-Merged.pdf
They consider cases of voter fraud of any type mostly since 2000 (although they do have stuff from 1948 in there, because lol Heritage). They manage only a few hundred cases, and almost every case documented would not be prevented by voter ID laws. A search of the document for the string "imperson" turns up SEVEN distinct cases out of the 462 presented.
So voter ID protecting the integrity of our elections: not so much.