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Yes, but the devil is in the details.In the “bad old days” we had this. When you registered to vote you were given a little official-looking card with your name and your precinct and your various election districts listed. You signed it. When you voted you brought that card with you, showed it to the election official, you signed a paper voting list, were checked off as having been given a ballot and you voted. Life was good.I was a poll worker in South Carolina in 2014 when the new photo Voter ID law went into effect. Voters arrived at the polls, pulled out their voter registration card and presented them to vote, one after another. Each was told that the voter registration card they had been carrying in their wallet from time immemorial was no good any more. They needed a photo ID from a list of acceptable government-issued IDs (which did not include state university ID cards). I don’t recall anyone in my mostly-white bedroom community not having a photo ID that first year.South Carolina also had a secret exception (at least it was not included on the published pamphlets on the new ID law for the first two years). It was the “reasonable impediment” exception. A voter without ID could declare in writing that they did not have an ID and there was a reasonable impediment to them having one. Then they could vote a provisional ballot that counted unless someone challenged it. If you had an ID but didn’t bring it, tough luck.Also in South Carolina, one could simply go to the voter registration office and request a photo ID for free. They would take your photo and mail an ID card to you.The only problem I had with South Carolina law was that a driver’s license expired for just one day, couldn’t be used as an ID—but someone could claim reasonable impediment.As someone who calls himself a progressive Democrat, I am perfectly content with the South Carolina Voter ID law.Now I live in Virginia, and what I’m describing here is the state of the law prior to July 1, 2020 (see note at end). Virginia also had a strict photo ID law, only there was no reasonable impediment exception. However, Virginia accepted that student ID as well as an employer-issued photo ID. And in Virginia, like South Carolina, you could to go to the voter registration office and ask for a free photo ID. Unlike South Carolina, you could use an ID that was expired for no more than a year.I was a poll worker in Virginia and the flexible ID law didn’t cause problems for anyone I saw. Life was good.So what’s the big deal about Photo ID?The devil is in the details. Alabama passed a strict Voter ID law, and then closed or drastically cut hours at DMV offices in predominantly black parts of the state.[1] Getting a state ID nowadays as states move to integrate Real ID requirements into their documents can be tough. An inner city 18-year-old from a broken home may not have a birth certificate or a social-security card, and two proofs of residence. It could be tough for them in a state with an ID law stricter than what we had in South Carolina and Virginia.Make no mistake about it; no one on the Democratic side is advocating fraud. We just want to make sure that every eligible voter can vote safely and conveniently. Laws have to be reasonable, not draconian.Note: The new Virginia law that went into effect July 1 does away with the photo ID requirement, allowing additional documents, like a bank statement, as proof of identity. Optionally the voter may sign a declaration of identity and vote.ID requirements are not what stops voter fraud. The threat of 5 years in jail is what stops it.Update:I looked at the Heritage Election Fraud database. There were a total of 13 voter impersonation cases for the whole country over 30 years. Voter ID laws not worth the hassle.Footnotes[1] As it turns out, Bentley's driver's license closures were racial

The querent simply doesn’t understand what the term “mail-in” vs absentee ballots means.An absentee vote is one in which you, the voter, contact the state and request an absentee ballot. It is sent to you and you complete it - in some states you will need to get your signature notarized — and then you send it back. Your signature is compared to the one on file for you before it is accepted.Mail-in voting is where the states sends a ballot to every person on the voter registration list, including dead cats, dead voters, minors, people who moved away thirty years, cartoon characters, and legitimate voters.Since many of the people to whom the ballot is addressed are not legitimate voters, if someone feels like filling out the ballot and sending it back, it’s illegal, but they probably will not be caught. And in 2020, many people did. These illegitimate voters voted overwhelmingly for Biden.In some states, these votes were counted.Trump and his family voted by absentee ballot.But several thousand dead people by mail-in voting.

Let’s start with the fact that your question is wrong.Is it an admission of guilt when a governor refuses to comply with a federal investigation over voter fraud in their state?It is not the governors that are refusing. It is the Secretary of State for those states that are refusing to comply.You are also trying to claim that Democrat officials are refusing to cooperate, when Republican officials are as well.State Officials Of Both Parties Reject Requests For Voters' Identification DetailsEven Kobach, who is the Secretary of State, is refusing to submit all of the information that he has requested from other states. How ironic that the man that compiled the list of information that states are to provide is refusing to provide that information for voters in his state.Kobach: Kansas won’t give Social Security info to Kobach-led voter commission at this timeThe requests are excessive, and there is no reason for all of the information requested other than voter suppression.Kobach said this information would be made public. Why? I personally do not want my social security number, even the last 4 digits made public.If this administration is truly interested in discovering voter fraud and not voter suppression, then why did the GOP end funding for the Election Assistance Commission, which provides states with funding to monitor the elections held to ensure there is no voter fraud?Why has there been no investigation as to whether attacks were done to actually try to alter voting machines?The DHS hasn't investigated whether voting machines were hacked in November, and says it doesn't intend toIf Voting Machines Were Hacked, Would Anyone Know?Russia attempted to hack U.S. voting software days before election: NSA documentRussians hacked two U.S. voter databases, officials sayU.S. official: Hackers targeted voter registration systems of 20 statesHomeland Security tied to attempted hack of Georgia's election database: ReportAnd after the GOP hired a firm that ended up leaking the voter registration information of nearly 200 million voters, why would anyone feel comfortable with this information being shared?Data of almost 200 million voters leaked online by GOP analytics firmAren’t you at all concerned about this? You should be.