Voter fraud begins at the border, not the ballot box
Get ready for Congress to waste its time fighting over the SAVE Act, with both sides pretending it would do far more evil or good than makes any sense at all.
Don’t get us wrong: Requiring photo ID to vote is a no-brainer, the rule around the world from Albania to Zambia — but it wouldn’t actually be a major factor in cleaning up US elections.
Of course Democrats are absurd in pretending it’s Jim Crow 2.0 (a line they used in denouncing a Georgia law that led to increased minority turnout), as evil as pre-1965 literacy tests or poll taxes.
Hogwash! Participating in society — having a bank account, entering a school building, getting a Social Security card — requires photo ID.
If the barriers to getting it were really so high, be assured we’d be hearing about it.
But the Republican claim — that our elections are at risk from imposters flooding the polls — doesn’t hold up, either: It’s not possible to have thousands of people impersonating real voters (how can you know they won’t show up?), and masses of noncitizens are not going risk severe penalties for registering and voting illegally just to help some Democrat win a race.
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