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That is another false claim.

There are 17 states with voter photo id laws, of which 11 are considered fully implemented.

Of those 11 states, Obama won 4, and Romney won 7.

There are 4 states considered “strict” photo id states, and Romney won all of them. But that’s Kansas, Indiana, Tennessee, and Georgia. Romney won Kansas by 23%, and Tennessee by 20%. No fraud was going to lose those 4 states.

Simple fact is, republican states tend to enact stricter voter id laws, and Romney won those states because that are republican states.

BTW, some do just say “Voter ID”, and not “Voter Photo ID” — but there are 30 states with voter ID laws, and Obama won a significant number of those, including Virginia and Ohio.

BTW, this form of argument is a flawed one. Even if it was true that Romney won every state with photo id laws, it wouldn’t be evidence that Obama committed fraud in the states he won.

Further, in order to commit the massive amount of voter fraud suggested, one would have to be committing felonies on an unprecedented scale. If you are doing so, making fake IDs would be a trivial additional charge to add to the list.

I strongly support photo id laws, because that is the easy way to stop amateurs from stealing close local elections. But they won’t stop a professional voter fraud effort on a national scale — nothing really would, because voters wouldn’t accept the changes necessary.

After all, we could easily make sure of our vote if we simply collected DNA samples when you registered, and ran DNA tests to verify ID before allowing you to vote. Or substitute fingerprint scans, or retinal scans, as you wish.