No need to downplay the situation. 1 case or 250 cases… it should not matter how many. It comes back to honesty and integrity of which some people do not have…apparently.
Yes. Some people don't have integrity. That is a given. And when I see a law, which is ostensibly to prevent voter fraud, that does not allow a student ID to qualify as identification but does allow a concealed carry permit, then I have to wonder about the integrity behind that law. If the purpose is identification, then why that particular selection? We might all agree that speeding is a problem, but if the solution presented is we outlaw convertibles, I wonder whether speeding is the issue actually being addressed.
So I ask again. Of those examples, how would voter ID laws have prevented them?
Using student ID as voter Identification could allow a student to vote absentee ballot in the state he is resident of, while at the same time voting at the local polling place in the state that he/she goes to school in.
what cant you understand about that.
Do you have any proof at all that this was actually happening? If so, is there another means of stopping it, other than disenfranchising thousands of Students who want to exercise their right to vote, and use their Student Id's as their identification after they have ALREADY registered to vote and gotten vetted by the State and approved for such?
I find it hard to believe that students that are away at school, are going to remember to apply for an absentee ballot months ahead of time IN their home state... let alone then try to vote in the local election as well, and commit fraud in that manner, where they are signing in at the voting place, swearing they have not voted elsewhere and will not vote elsewhere if via absentee, and risk getting caught in a FELONY...
I think they are less likely to do such than some evil adult or criminal....