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TheWorstPoster posted...

It's hard to prove, only because of how it is done (voting under dead people's names), not only for illegal aliens, but those voting more than once.

If it's hard to prove then how do you know it's being done, particularly in numbers large enough to actually affect the outcome of elections?

That's like me saying "The Republicans obviously stuffed ballot boxes to get Trump elected. I don't have any evidence, but only because it's so hard to prove."

TheWorstPoster posted...

This is why we need Voter ID laws. If India forces Voter ID on its citizens, why can't we?

Because the Republican party is paradoxically for Voter ID laws (almost entirely as a means of disenfranchising demographics that typically vote Democrat, like college students or minorities - witness how Texas's laws consider a handgun license to be a valid piece of ID, but not a Student ID card) but against the infrastructure that would actually make Voter ID laws work like they're supposed to.

Most countries in the world have a National ID card to get around this problem, something that Americans - right-wingers in particular - are violently opposed to because it's Big Brother Watching You or some nonsense like that. If the US ever bothered to implement this system - a free ID card automatically issued to all adult citizens who are eligible to vote - it would solve a lot of the headaches. Instead, because no such system exists in the States, when Voter ID laws are crafted, they are almost inevitably done using carefully cherry-picked ID substitutes to exclude voters that the lawmakers don't want voting, which is not how that's supposed to work.
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