Fair enough. However, wouldn't it be better to be proactive on this? Rather than a potential problem cropping up, go ahead and implement the voter ID, and you have to have this ID with you when you show up to the polling station, otherwise, you don't vote until you do.
Surely, if it is a verified document, only given to those who are proven to be u.s. citizens, and when you show up to the polling station, you swipe your card and vote. It would be electronically recorded that you have cast a vote and if you tried again, it would recognize that you have already voted and you would be denied.
This would solve several potential problems:
1) everyone would be able to cast only 1 vote.
2) if you are not a citizen, you wouldn't have an ID card, and therefore would not be able to vote.
3) the ID will be picture ID, and if you have to show it to a poll station worker before you voted, then you wouldn't be able to use the ID of someone who is no longer living, and thus, someone could not use the ID of those who are no longer living to cast ballots.
It may be that it is not a wide spread problem, but it does happen. Who's to say that it doesn't get worse. You say that there are already measures in place to combat voter fraud, the problem is, those measures are usually on the back end, after the election is already over, and it becomes a hassle to track it down and remedy it.
Put safeguards on the front end to stop it from happening in the first place. Also, the reported cases are those we know about. How many more slip through the cracks each election cycle that we never discover?
Surely, if it is a verified document, only given to those who are proven to be u.s. citizens, and when you show up to the polling station, you swipe your card and vote. It would be electronically recorded that you have cast a vote and if you tried again, it would recognize that you have already voted and you would be denied.
This would solve several potential problems:
1) everyone would be able to cast only 1 vote.
2) if you are not a citizen, you wouldn't have an ID card, and therefore would not be able to vote.
3) the ID will be picture ID, and if you have to show it to a poll station worker before you voted, then you wouldn't be able to use the ID of someone who is no longer living, and thus, someone could not use the ID of those who are no longer living to cast ballots.
It may be that it is not a wide spread problem, but it does happen. Who's to say that it doesn't get worse. You say that there are already measures in place to combat voter fraud, the problem is, those measures are usually on the back end, after the election is already over, and it becomes a hassle to track it down and remedy it.
Put safeguards on the front end to stop it from happening in the first place. Also, the reported cases are those we know about. How many more slip through the cracks each election cycle that we never discover?