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Voter suppression is a real problem and puts up unnecessary barriers for people to register to vote, vote by mail, vote in person, or have their ballot counted. The result is a severely compromised democracy that doesn’t reflect the will of the people. Our democracy works best when all eligible voters can participate and have their voices heard.
There is no evidence that the United States has a problem with voter fraud. Studies have shown there’s less than a one tenth of a percent chance of voter fraud in the United States. Many studies have found that voter fraud is extraordinarily rare in our country, yet some public officials continue to tell Americans falsehoods about the state of our elections. The true threat to our elections is voter suppression, not fraud.
Unnecessarily strict voter identification laws are a part of an ongoing strategy to roll back decades of progress on voting rights. Seven states have strict photo ID laws, under which voters must present one of a limited set of forms of government-issued photo ID in order to cast a regular ballot. The fact is that nearly 29 million voting-age Americans do not have the photo identification these laws require.
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