One of the least committed offenses in this country is the act of voter fraud. There has only been approximately 3 cases of voter fraud in the history of this nation. Yet recently, there has been a large push largely from Republican officials, to push for stricter voting requirements. These restriction range from cutting early voting time, to requiring photo IDs, something innocuous yet it still impacts a large portion of inner city voters. There has also been laws that make college students use their parents address as their address, by stating college boarding is temporary housing and does not count as your home address when it comes to voting. This ever more complicated a process that many college students feel rather apathetic towards in the first place.
The real problem is that the officials pushing for these restrictions have no real intention of stopping voter fraud, no one does it and who really wants to? What their concerns are, are the younger, or poorer, or even the minority populations. These laws disproportionately impact these marginalized populations, and can easily be seen as an attempt to suppress these people from voting.
If the real concern is voter fraud then the concern is deeply misplaced. The fear stirred up over the "new black panther movement", and how undocumented aliens are using other people's social security numbers to vote, is all a rouse. To believe this is in my opinion, being truly ignorant of reality.
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