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Angel1:
Most of those laws have been on the books for at least a year, at least one state delayed their voter ID law through the last midterm election precisely because they had passed it too late for peopple to get IDs if they don't already have them. You can't tell me that an entire year is not enough time to get a picture ID.
We can discuss specific cases, but if the state has had the law on the books for at least a year and IDs have been available for free for at least a year and if locations to get photo IDs are not unduly difficult, then voter ID laws should be fine. Talk specifics or be quiet.
As to your point that voter fraud is a non-issue. The 61st filibuster breaking senate vote responsible for Obamacare passing mattered. The Minnesota senate election was decided by fewer votes than there were fraudulent votes. Polling strongly suggests that the convicted felons cited as the fraudulent votes predominantly vote democratic. Don't tell me that voter fraud is a non-issue. Obamacare is not a non-issue. The Minnesota senate election that prevented a filibuster of Obamacare was not a non-issue. The fraudulent votes which put Franken into office as Senator are not a non-issue. Voter fraud matters. Voter fraud is important and damages our democracy. Reasonable efforts to prevent voter fraud is not racism or playing politics, it's just good leadership.
http://galvestondailynews.com/story/348014
So fraudulent voters are mainly Democrats? What a wonderful claim to make without providing evidence of your own. Your brief blurb summarizing a book doesn't say anything concretely.
"Franken won with a 312-vote margin in a race where 1,099 felons voted illegally. Despite a formidable barrier to conviction and apathy by county prosecutors, 177 felons were convicted of vote fraud — more than half of Franken’s victory margin."
So ALL 1099 of those felons were democrats? The 177 that were convicted were all democrats? What about the remaining 135 that weren't tied to such felons? They MUST have been illegal too!! You can draw whatever conclusion you want from numbers such as those, ffs. Maybe illegal voters that voted democrat are just stupider than those that voted republican, and thus got caught in higher percentages?
LALALALA I CAN MAKE WHATEVER CLAIM I WANT LALALALA