Voting and gun ownership are rights. IMO, rights are all the same, regardless of what emotional variables people would like to put on them. Back in the day people made emotional pleas to impose poll taxes etc, much the same way people are making pleas today to restrict gun rights. Contrary to what some believe, voting can kill people, but I digress.
Voter ID is being fought for many reasons, one of which is voter fraud is such an insignificant problem that putting up hurdles to lawful voters due to an almost non existent (I disagree with this assessment) voter fraud problem, makes presenting the ID a disproportionate response to said problem.
How it ties in with the trust deal is this: If there are felons cloaking their gun purchases through trusts, it is such an insignificant problem that is does not merit erecting a hurdle to lawful gun owners.
These two things are exactly the same and the comparison is valid.
Saying there is no wide scale voter fraud is like saying there is no stealing in a store where nobody does inventory,
nobody keeps track of the profits and nobody is watching any of the customers. Since when people vote, we don't really
keep track of how many votes are expected to be cast, nobody see's if it's the same people voting, and nobody ever gets
notification that they voted.
Its almost impossible to prove voting fraud, unless someone is caught in the act. There's no database keeping track of who voted,
and the sending some confirmation to you saying you voted or not. I, or anyone else can literally show up to the polls,
claim to be someone else and vote, no questions asked. No tell me you honestly dont think voter fraud is an issue.
When you have districts that have more people voting than registered voters, you have felons, illegals and deceased people
on the voting rolls (democrats favorite voting block), organizations like the now defunct ACORN that have been proven over
and over to register voters fraudulently, and even encourage people to vote twice. And situations like Al Fraken, who miraculously
found a bunch of missing ballots that just so happened to be all for him! How can you even doubt that voting fraud is a hige issue.
Someone has to be INCREDIBLY stupid to be caught committing voter fraud.
Double or Triple voting is easy, because there is no national voter list. Only state voter lists... and nobody is looking for them.
Nobody is checking voting records vs people who are in the hospital or out of town.
Nobody gets confirmation of their voting, so people who didn't vote, don't know that someone else voted for them.
I don't think people even do much checking on if people live where they say... (or really exist if you do it the right way.)
Really the only way's to catch voter fraud is if somebody very obviously gives themselves away, or if there are more
registered votes than voters. Saying there aren't many cases of people committing voter fraud isn't really a valid argument,
because there really aren't tools to catch many people of voter fraud.
Voter ID is just common sense.
I mean... I think we should put as much stringency on helping to decide the fate of the country as we do opening a bank account,
cashing a check or getting a library card. Honestly, it's a miracle anyone can function in todays society WITHOUT a photo ID.
Considering you need one for basically every single legitimate way of getting money outside of somebody with a photo ID giving it to you.
You basically need an ID if you want to exist in society. You need a photo ID or Birth certificate to do pretty much anything in this country.
If you don't have a government issued photo ID, you can't have a bank account.
And you can't cash checks... without ID.