Maybe requiring that ALL voters present some form of uniform valid official voter ID before voting in a Federal Election is a good idea. Have you heard of the voter fraud being attempted in Ohio? Not to mention elsewhere. Hell, I live in Summit County, heard what they tried there? I`d be nice to have off duty cops working the polls on election day as some kind of observers. At least there would be less of a credibility issue with them then some ordinary Joe Shmoe.
All that is required to deal with the immigrant problem, is to make the consequences of coming here illegally so severe that the word gets out in the rest of the world: Don't do it.
All that is required to stop vote fraud is to make the consequences of doing it so severe that... Etc...
The problem is, we're too squeamish to throw the miscreants in jail and leave them there. We're too squeamish to round up the Mexicans and put them in camps in the desert on a lizards-and-water diet until either somebody comes to claim them or they die of old age. We're too squeamish to lock up for 20 years some bright promising young Demonrat college stoont who just "Made A Mistake" and voted twice, and ruin his/her/its life permanently in order to set an example.
Everybody watches TV and gets all maudlin and sappy over the poor 14-year-old pregnant Mexican girl who "just came here for a better life", and over the college stoont's wailing and crying mommy who wants her baby back, and the result is that the Gummint wants all of us ordinary stiffs to carry ID.
Your papers, Tovarich!!!
I'm in Montgomery County where we have 600 precincts and need one Republican observer in each precinct all day in order to make sure things don't go too nuts. I think most county campaign HQ's are doing the same... call and volunteer to work election day if you can!
Check out This article for some links to examples of fraud here in Ohio!