1/ Two of the three examples of "voter fraud" @CNN commentator Jeffrey Lord points to are very old: 1948 and 1982. As to the third example
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4/ More to the point, there are no examples I could find since the early 1980s where an election plausibly thrown by impersonation fraud,and
5/ Impersonation fraud is the only kind of fraud a voter id law prevents. We do have more instances of absentee ballot fraud, but
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6/ Those restrictive Republican voter laws ostensibly targeting voter fraud usually leave absentee ballots alone. If one were serious about
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7/ If serious about combatting the real voter fraud that takes place, there would be no absentee balloting except w an excuse like illness
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8/ But Republicans have no appetite to make absentee voting harder,because it is convenient and they benefit from it and amount of fraud low
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9/ So bottom line:Lord is full of shit and it is hard to believe he is regular
@CNN commentator. Actually not so hard to believe these days -
Assume you're talking about Jeffrey Lord, because, well....
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see the beginning of this thread
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I know. It's just the individual chunks that are a bit jarring
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