Do voter ID laws prevent more legitimate votes than fraudulent votes?

Absolutely. It has been proven that it keeps people from voting. Some say it's easy to get a driver's license or ID. But it's not easy if you are poor, have no way to the DMV and can't get the paperwork. I'm sure the rich GOP can't fathom that $20 or so for a voter ID means going without food for a week. And poor people are more likely to vote democrat. Likewise with students, the college ID doesn't count in most states. And young people are more likely to vote dem.

For example, in Oregon, to get a DL or ID, you have to have a rental agreement, utility bill, or letter from a government agency. If you rent a room from someone, you don't have a rental agreement or utility bill. If you aren't involved with the government for any reason, you get no mail from them. So how do you prove yourself to get an ID? Even worse if you are homeless. And there, it's against the law to not have ID.

There is no voter fraud. And for it to affect elections, there would have to be hundreds locally, thousands in a state, and millions nationwide.

In the meantime, you have a group hired by the GOP, with a bad history, registering people to vote. They tried to register only reps, but if they got a dem, they through away the registration. Or the 40,000 missing ballots in Georgia because the gop secretary of state lost them and won't officially register them. That's the real voter fraud.

Not to mention the computers in Ohio that were rigged to change votes. (they had fake shut downs of the system, so it had to reroute through other roup and suddenly the votes were changed. Some computer hacker group figured it out and blocked it the last two elections, letting the real votes count.

Not to mention that the voting machines a lot of states use are owned by companies controlled heavily by the GOP. There is no paper trail and the system can easily be manipulated.

That's the voter fraud they should go after.

In my opinion yes, the voter id issues itself are unfair given the level of problems that don't exist. In tests were officials try to place false votes, some of them get caught. In the real world there simply aren't enough people getting caught trying to vote under someone else's identity to turn an election. So voter id doesn't make a lot of sense.

But it is more than voter id. Republicans are also trying to do away with same day registration, early voting, purging voter rolls to keep legit voters from voting. All of this is happening in voter id legislation.

And none of it has to do with fraud prevention.

It is literally impossible for any States' "ID law" to prevent EVEN ONE vote, liar.

You are LYING about fraud cases. Even in places where it's ILLEGAL to TRY TO DETECT voter identity fraud, there are several CONVICTIONS due to people screwing-up and revealing THEIR OWN crimes.

The Texas "voter ID law" DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY ID AT ALL to vote, liar.

The Supreme Court ruled that OTHER States' laws that are JUST LIKE the Texas law ARE CONSTITUTIONAL.

Yes. In-person voting is not a huge issue, not even close. Its pretty funny how republicans are convinced they dont have a president in the white house because of "cheating", and not because their views are backwards and even offensive.

"Extensive" research"?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp...

“Most non-citizens do not register, let alone vote. But enough do that their participation can change the outcome of close races.”

http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cces/home

This is the study that the WaPo authors use to cite the incidence of actual voter fraud.

http://www.examiner.com/article/stuffed-ballots-ri...

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/29/la-raza-promotes...

Clearly, yes. Hopefully, it backfires on republicans and disproportionately impacts elderly residents that have allowed their licenses to expire. They're more likely to vote republican anyway and it is the republicans that have been trying to play games by suppressing and dividing votes.

ACORN made it their number one mission and were caught registering Disney and NFL names. They were not prosecuted just as the Black Panthers at the polls in PA carrying sticks to intimidate white voters were not prosecuted .

I know of more than ten since 2012 off the top of my head. I think the guy on you tube that voted as eric holder highligts how wrong you are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5p70YbRiPw

Good luck with that one.

no