# What effect did voter-ID laws have in the 2012 election? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 22, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-effect-did-voter-id-laws-have-in-the-2012-election/664243 "2013-07-22T20:08:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 64
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-effect-did-voter-id-laws-have-in-the-2012-election/664243/64 "2013-07-26T00:38:50Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > OK, sure, why not be generous? But it seems to me events have rendered this argument outdated. Cats out of the bag now, further developments from the Pubbies have shown their clear intention, which is to use whatever legal maneuver to reduce the number of Dem voters. > > With voter ID they had some scant shadow of respectability, what with “voter confidence” and the barely possible threat of an election thrown off course by the merest handful of illegal voters. That ain’t much, but reducing early voting? Making voter registration drives difficult and legally suspect? Reducing the option for polling places to stay open to accommodate voters? What has any of this to do with voter fraud? Zip, zilch, zero, nada damn thing! > > They’ve been on about voter fraud for years and years, even sent federal attorneys on a nation-wide snipe hunt, with predictable results. Now, that may have even been sincere, if misguided. They may truly believe that they are the majority of Americans, and this may be the only way the can rationalize the stubborn refusal of facts to align with their beliefs. > > But they’ve thrown all that aside, the are blatant and obvious now. The clear purpose of these efforts as made so obvious in Texas and N. Carolina is to reduce the number of people who vote Dem. They’re not even _pretending_ anymore. We got the power to do it, you can’t stop us, legal, Constitutional, neener neener and fuck you. You didn’t answer me, and after I answered you! > [@Bricker](#): > > Now provide US with proof that providing you guys with evidence has ever changed your minds. Well? (And by “you guys,” I’ll settle for YOU). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-effect-did-voter-id-laws-have-in-the-2012-election/664243)._