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I believe that voter fraud is much higher than most suspect. There is a genuine reason that leftwing groups are so opposed to the voter ID law and I can give examples of at least two ways that voter turnout can be artificially boosted that I have personally witnessed.

1) "Community Organizers" go to housing projects and throw parties, often times with alcohol, and then bus hundreds of residents to the polls after giving them instructions on who to vote for. These are people that would never go to the polls on their own and are not motivated or informed on the candidates. Anyone involved in the bussing business is going to face a hurdle making sure dozens or hundreds of people who would not go and vote on their own, bother to have updated IDs and bring them to the polls after the party.

2) The second way to beat the system is that leftwing groups like Acorn get access to the voter rolls and collect names of people who have not voted for a number of years. Remember how Holder was fighting states trying to clean out their voter rolls? With this list of names, community organizers get young activists like the "dreamers" who have a political stake in the election and many times are not even legal to vote, and get them to go to the polls and vote under names pulled from the list. I saw this happen last year in Florida while doing a freelance job down there last November. I was working as an RF technician at a big event where all these young kids were claiming to be "Dreamers" and marching for Obama. The following day I was doing the same work at a polling place and saw many of the same kids who the previous day were claiming to be illegal, walking into the polls and voting. There were so many illegals at the polls that day it was shocking.

It is nearly impossible to catch the individual who votes and signs as someone else unless they brag about it or perhaps if they are actually a poll worker and someone tells on them. Showing an ID will significantly help control the really easy ways to scam the system which are being perpetrated by young, liberal/progressive activist groups. Neither the Democrats or the Republicans are fighting this battle because there might be 3 or 4 scammers in the entire state.

I used my CHL as voter ID. There is a misspelling on my DL that I have negelected to correct and I did not even think about it until I was at the poll. I pulled out my CHL and used that with no problem at all. I am really glad that that Texas is asking for IDs. It is about time.