Reply #127: "There's no evidence

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isn't enough to disuade disuade <[i>sic] from registering and seems like the perfect balance for making it easy for eligible voters to register."

OK there's no evidence that it is, either. Especially when the chances are very low that it will ever be detected, or if detected, prosecuted.

However many voters do not register, it is no concern of mine. People have died for the right to vote. If someone cannot be bothered to prove their citizenship, then it is obvious that she doesn't care about it.

Hypocrisy in my position? I don't think so. Any rules can be circumvented, any at all. I think providing documentation that you are a citizen is reasonable. Investigation of everyone on no evidence is not, IMO. But neither is the acceptance of illegal voters because we don't want to put anybody to any trouble whatsoever.

I do not ask for perfection, and it is foolish to expect it. I do ask that some effort be made. By the way it strikes me. You never did answer my question: How would you prevent illegal voters from voting? Please don't say that you would just take their word for it, under oath. Think of it this way: how many people sign off on their income tax returns, under penalty of perjury, and lie about their incomes. The answer is "plenty".