"Despite four different federal courts finding that its photo ID law is discriminatory, Texas is investing more state time and resources ― to date, more than five years and 3.5 million dollars ― to tilt at windmills against a problem, impersonation voter fraud, that does not exist," Janai Nelson, an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said in a statement.
FGD respondents were also of the opinion that the problem of impersonation could be minimized if health workers take their time to look at pictures on the cards well before attending to the patient.
Regarding the problem of impersonation participants suggested an improvement in the picture quality of the membership cards as well as a critical examination of membership cards at health facilities to ensure that the photograph on the card is really that of the person attending the facility.
We're starting with well-known accounts that have had problems with impersonation or identity confusion.
In the meantime, given GOP determination to crack down on the virtually nonexistent problem of voter impersonation, there is a good case to use infrastructure that already exists to maximize the number of options people have to obtain proper IDs.
The organisations, including the Salvation Army, Age UK, Liberty and Centrepoint, have written a joint letter warning that the idea was an excessive response to an almost negligible problem of voter impersonation at polling booths.
Critics had warned the trail was targeting a tiny problem of voter impersonation at polling booths, and risked putting off more vulnerable voters who might not hold the necessary documents, for example older people and the homeless.
Richard L. Hasen, an election law expert and critic of voter identification laws who is a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine, wrote in the Fort Worth Star Telegram that: Republican claims of a serious problem with voter impersonation are bogus.
Though there was no evidence of actual voter fraud in Nevada presented at the hearing, former Republican Assemblywoman Sharron Angle, who lost the 2010 U.S. Senate race to Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, testified that "we do have a voter impersonation problem across the country," according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In a letter to Texas elections officials, the Justice Department said the state submitted no evidence that it is suffering from a voter-impersonation problem that would be solved with an ID requirement.
Other exhaustive studies just have not found extensive problems with voter impersonation.
