| Subject: [EL] photo IDs and detection of voter fraud |
| From: "David A. Schultz" <dschultz@gw.hamline.edu> |
| Date: 12/3/2010, 11:46 AM |
| To: "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu> |
One of the arguments among advocates of photo voter IDs is that currently we do not know the full scope of potential voter fraud without them. This is because the fraud is undetected. There is thus an empirical argument here. Specifically, the implementation of photo ID for voting should reveal or detect fraud that was otherwise previously hidden.
Are there any studies or analysis on the use of photo voter IDs that address this issue? Have any states that have instituted photo IDs produced numbers or stats on changes in reported or detected fraud? I would be interested to see or know about these studies for a paper I am constructing.
Thank you.