Friday, August 26, 2016

Some typical statistics on voter ID

It has been in the new lately.  I pulled some stats, nothing accurate, but I saw 15% of Blacks and 6% of whites without personal ID.  We have to drop half of these as folks who are hiding out anyway, and of the remainder,about half cannot read the ballot and are a coin toss.  So, skip the race issue, the marginal numbers lost or gained are not worth the effort.

The bigger issue is the huge class of potential voters who already have photo IDs, the NAFTA citizens, the folks who carry a personal ID from the state in which they reside, and a photo ID of their native NAFTA country; and they vote at home by mail.  These folks act as if they have a legal NAFTA visa, although the regulation is horrible.  They are not likely to jeopardize their visa status by voting illegally.  These folks, most of them, just want the NAFTA visa regulations defined.

It is this sudden discovery by Nancy that these folks will all suddenly decide to break the law every eight years?

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