Headline: Voter ID advocate fails to name single instance of voter fraud.
That's because it doesn't exist in any kind of relevant way. If you follow this link you'll find the best shot the GOP has taken to date to prove it does. It will show you about 300 instances of individual voter fraud cases over a 10 year period. Just in national and statewide elections alone over the last 10 years there have been 1.2 billion votes. 300 divided by 1.2 billion is 0.000000025. There hasn't been an election in the history of the universe that has been anywhere near that close. Therefore it cannot be possible that individual voter fraud could impact our elections.
By contrast, before the 2000 election, Katherine Harris disenfranchised 7000 Florida voters because they had the same name as felons. By the time the conservative majority on the USSC shut down the vote counting and appointed Bush president the margin of "victory" was 535 votes.
So it's quite clear: by their constant efforts to rob all manner of poor, elderly, young, and minority Americans of their right to vote, Republicans are stealing elections. Forget about government, more than a few of them should be in prison for these crimes against democracy.
In addition to that, given that we're a 50/50 country, the distribution of individuals are likely to cancel each other out.
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