First things first, I don’t doubt it is a bad thing, considering who supports it and who doesn’t.
But my question is what exactly is the issue and what is the current and proposed voting process when it comes to IDs?
Here in my EU country, you have to show some version of a government ID, be it an ID card, drivers license or passport. And we don’t have to pre-register to vote.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/03/09/ice-arrests-criminal-illegal-alien-who-voted-seven-federal-elections-2008
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/10/28/dozens-illegal-aliens-arrested-nationwide-voter-fraud-crackdown
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-charges-16-individuals-illegal-voting-and-related-election-crimes
https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/us-news/noncitizen-snared-in-california-voter-fraud-bust-reveals-how-he-did-it/
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/four-things-to-know-about-noncitizen-voting/
Number of voter fraud cases: 513 cases since 2016.
Number of eligible voters who would be disenfranchised by voter ID: 21 million people.
Yeah, let’s stop 21 million people from voting because a few hundred fraudulent votes is far more likely to flip an election than a few million.
Ah yes, a handful of cases over multiple elections. On a population of 340+ million people. You just prived the GPs point.
I said there’s no evidence it’s a major issue. The numbers mentioned there are extremely small compared to tens of millions of votes. One person? Wow. 16 people? Im sure it was worth their time and taxpayer money. The stat I cited said .04%. Others say less. No elections are won or lost by .04%.
The Heritage Foundation looked into this and found a total of 100 cases since 1982.
https://electionfraud.heritage.org/search (Choose “alien” in the bottom menu).
The idea that non-citizens would take the time and risk to vote illegally sounds pretty stupid to me, and it seems they agree.
I wonder which side the folks committing fraud admired
Not sure if that matters for like 5 people. Anyway, looking at the Heritage Foundation data, many of the illicit voters were Hispanic, a group that went for Trump in 2024 and are seen as a major bloc that got him elected. Most people from Central America are Catholic, and tend to be socially conservative. This group is supporting Trump less these days, but this goes back to 1982, as noted. What was your guess?
Oh look, someone who doesn’t understand basic statistics.