I'm against fraudulent voting. No question.

I'm also against disenfranchisement of voters, for any reason. No question about that either.

There's clearly a relationship between them---the more stringently we try to defeat fraudulent voting--the more people we disenfranchise... Let's for the sake of argument assume a fraudulent vote is roughly worth a disenfranchised vote. Now it's just a math problem...

If you defeat MORE fraud than the votes you disenfranchise--you get my support. At present the rules we're discussing seem like that's not true -- we're disenfranchising MORE people than the fraud we're preventing.

Those of you in support of these voter ID laws... Catchy phrases not-withstanding ... do you think a fraudulent vote prevented is worth MORE than a disenfranchised vote? 2x as much? 3x as much? What's your math on this?

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