Alleged Problem: Large numbers of people showing up at a precinct to vote using someone else’s name. (Not really a problem but for argument’s sake bear with me…)

Question: How many such votes would it take to sway an election? In a precinct of 5,000 registered voters would 100 fraudulent votes affect the outcome? More? 100 fraudulent votes comes to 0.02% of registered voters in a given precinct.

Logistics: What would it take to garner these 100 votes per precinct? Say there are 100 precincts in a city overall.

1. Identify those on the list of registered voters who are deceased but whose names remain as active.
2. Have a means of printing an “official notice” for these deceased voters to be used by your “voters.”
3. Recruit 100 surrogates to use those “official notices” and go to the polls and vote.
4. Coordinate all 100 precincts in the city to steal the vote.

Alternative: Identify 100 people at random in each precinct who are still alive and on the registry as voters and follow steps Logistics 2-4. Insure your surrogates go to the polls early to insure they vote for their namesakes before the real voters arrive.

Reality: For a local, state or national election either approach is too cumbersome to work, and the Alternative too easily exposed.

Solution: Instead restrict key avenues to voting.

1. Require special state-issued photo IDs. (This tends to negatively affect minority populations more than others.)
2. Close a number of state offices particularly in predominantly minority areas, or restrict hours when special IDs are issued to 3:00-4:00 so lunch hours can’t easily be used.
3. Restrict “official” offices (usually DMV offices) to remote areas off public transportation requiring lengthy travel times.
4. Require official records to verify one’s identity to qualify for special ID. (For many seniors born in the early 1900s official birth certificates weren’t issued, or have been lost/destroyed; for some official names weren’t filed correctly; for many minority and poor obtaining official birth certificates is prohibitively expensive; for married women the official name on their birth certificate is different from their married name, and if a birth certificate is the only official form acknowledged a woman may not qualify because the names are different.)
5. Eliminate early voting.
6. Eliminate same day registration/voting.
7. Decrease the number of polling stations.

Current status of voter fraud in the country: In every red state where official investigations of the incidents of voter fraud have been conducted results reveal a fraud count of 0.0087%. Results vary from state to state but the differences are insignificant. The cost of investigating the incidents of voter fraud runs in the thousands of dollars of taxpayer monies.

When the Supreme Court in 2013 gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 every red state passed laws to restrict voting by implementing variations of Solution 1-7. that particularly affect minority populations in a negative way.