Comments by "" (@timogul) on "CNBC Television"
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@davidking4779 The Republican laws are not about suppressing illegal voting, they are about suppressing legal voting, because in the last election Americans legally voted to remove the Republican presidential candidate and they did not like that. The new rules are designed to reduce voting in traditionally Democratic parts of states, and to allow Republican officials in states to overturn election results that displease them.
Illegal voting is not a problem in the US, it never has been. The conservative Heritage Foundation tracks voter fraud in the US and over the past twenty years had been able to find almost none, certainly not enough to change the results of any election. There will always be some people who want to commit crimes, but at a certain point, the attempts to prevent a crime cause more harm than the crime itself. Like you could prevent theft by preemptively jailing ALL citizens, but would that be worth it?
As I said, if there is practically no voter fraud already, would reducing that to zero be worth it if it means that ten or a hundred or a thousand times as many perfectly legal voters find themselves unable to exercise that right due to the new restrictions on how and when they are able to do so?
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