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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
I am. It's one thing to get a voter registration card with the name of Donald Duck on it and be able to cast your ballot no questions asked, but if "Don Duck" has to somehow obtain a photo ID to match his registration card it may provide quite a deterrence to voter fraud. It's common sense man, if you make fraudulent voting harder to do less people will do it.
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You also make LEGIT voting harder, and thus less people will do it - and if the effect on legitimate voting is greater than the effect on fraudulent voting, you could very easily see a net increase in the effect of the fraudulent votes.
Especially if you have to do things like allow paper documents, as is apparently the case in the Texas law above.
"Common sense" is still subject to math.
ETA: Also this "may provide" stuff is exactly the problem (and why I agree w/ MC below).