Voter ID
Creating a voter ID card has been a contentious issue in the United States. Usually, it’s presented as a way of preventing fraud. Not that there’s much evidence fraud based on false identification is much of a problem in the United States, nor that the sizable number of people without the types of ID usually considered under “voter ID laws” (drivers licenses or passports) are likely to commit voter fraud.
I am not saying this is unique to any particular political party here, or even to Mexico. I happen to think the IFE Card was an excellent way to limit fraud… but it is far from perfect. As this video shows — when a voter ID card is required to cast a ballot it simply creates opportunities for a different type of fraud: and, if fraud prevention was really what “voter ID” laws were about in the U.S., one that should worry its supporters.
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