[FewsOrange]

Voter Id laws won’t make any difference to absentee ballot or early ballot fraud. Some other strategy needs to be found for that.

[Michael.SF.]

Consider NYC under Guiliani; He cracked done on petty crimes, that often were ignored The crime rate then plunged , the major crimes.

Though your point is accurate, the impact of such laws may affect other types of fraud.

[norton]

Voter Id laws won’t make any difference to absentee ballot or early ballot fraud. Some other strategy needs to be found for that.

Simple solution:
1. Vote in person, with id, at the time designated, or provide hard evidence of your reason for voting early at a designated and monitored location; election day rosters to clearly show that the vote had already been cast.
2. Total exception for military, military families, overseas workers / US representatives overseas, and employees deployed within CONUS; vote only by absentee ballot provided (timely) by the employer and accounted for by that employer. (Easy to do, just reassign a pot load of "Equal Opportunity/diversity employees to a job that would actually benefit society.)
3. Heavy fines for any employer not in compliance and hard time for any voter caught in a scam.
4. Only hard copy ballots accounted for by US Marshals; no electronic gimmicks because there will always be new ways of hacking or rigging the equipment.

Seriously: If someone is too lazy, too incompetent, or otherwise not going to take time to cast a ballot - I don't want them voting by any means.