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by relaxing 501 days ago
> just forge a signature

Hard to do in practice. Arouse any suspicion and now the authorities are contacting the real voter asking them why their signature doesn’t match and the jig is up.

And you have to scale up 1000x to make an impact, which means conspiracy, which multiplies the likelihood of getting caught.

No, despite what you’ve been told the way to rig an election is not at the ballot box.

It’s a scheme to disenfranchise the poor who don’t drive, plain and simple.

Voting holiday and a massive, ongoing, census-level government outreach to ensure everyone gets and maintains an ID would be fine, but of course the right wing legislatures don’t want that.