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by dghf 3234 days ago
The UK seems to manage OK (ID is only required in Northern Ireland). 2015 saw 37 allegations of personation out of 51.4 million votes cast (https://www.ncpolitics.uk/2016/12/how-big-a-problem-is-votin...).
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Yes. My point would be allegations of personation is a meaningless number. Because if there is no voter ID you would not get many of these allegations either way.
Only if those perpetrating this kind of fraud somehow knew who wasn't going to bother voting, otherwise you'd have large numbers of people turning up to vote only to discover that someone had already voted in their name.