General Discussion

Or if he has, he has no idea of all the things, done by other people to ensure elections ARE secure, *already happened* before he did so.

Voter registration, and the later signature verification, IS the "Voter Id" portion of the process, in essence. Add the very stiff, felony-level penalties for misrepresenting yourself during the process, and it all means that basically nobody commits "voter fraud" of the type that could even potentially be averted by requiring ID be shown at the polling place. The 'reward', getting to cast your ONE VOTE, out of thousands or millions, is miniscule for the individual, when compared to 5 YEARS in fucking JAIL. And/or deportation, if you're not a US citizen. People just don't do it. Period. It's not "a thing".

This whole push for Voter ID and restricting drop boxes and mail-in voting is based on an article of faith among Republicans, which is that the more difficult, the more costly, the more HASSLE it is for people to vote, the better their party's chances of winning generally are. This is why you'll NEVER hear from the GOP anything about making Election Day a national holiday, for example. They think their voters are more willing to jump through hoops to vote than ours are (and are more likely to have the means to physically show up to the polls on Election Day), and it's pretty much that simple.

Everything else they say is just window-dressing for that fundamental tenet of their mindset.