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America the Outlier: Voter Photo IDs Are the Rule in Europe and Elsewhere
Real Clear Investigations ^ | June 1, 2021 | John R Lott Jr

Posted on 06/01/2021 11:14:22 AM PDT by richardb72

Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections – warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story – of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned.

A database on voting rules worldwide complied by the Crime Prevention Research Center, which I run, shows that election integrity measures are widely accepted globally, and have often been adopted by countries after they've experienced fraud under looser voting regimes.

Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe -- a place where, on other matters, American progressives often look to with envy -- all but one country requires a government-issued photo voter ID to vote. The exception is the U.K., and even there voter IDs are mandatory in Northern Ireland for all elections and in parts of England for local elections. Moreover, Boris Johnson’s government recently introduced legislation to have the rest of the country follow suit.

Criticisms of the British leader’s voter ID push are similar to those heard in the U.S. The Scottish National Party claims his voter ID push targets “lower income, ethnic minority and younger people” who are less likely to vote for Johnson’s conservatives and therefore represents “Trump-like voter suppression.”

Yet despite such pushback, Britain looks set to follow countries in Europe and elsewhere with stricter voting regimes, few of which temporarily relaxed any of their voting rules during the pandemic. . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia; US: Texas; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: absenteeballots; borisjohnson; cprc; europeanunion; georgia; johnlott; scotland; scotlandyet; texas; unitedkingdom; votefraud; voterid

1 posted on 06/01/2021 11:14:22 AM PDT by richardb72
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It is easier to vote in any U.S. state than to rent a hotel room in any U.S. jurisdiction. I don’t want to hear the vote suppression whine.


2 posted on 06/01/2021 11:19:14 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com .

How is your blog "News"?

What caused you to excerpt it?

Do you need a job?

3 posted on 06/01/2021 11:20:26 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: richardb72

The BBC was pretending that American election reform laws requiring IDs etc are “racist” and “extremist”.


4 posted on 06/01/2021 11:21:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: richardb72

guess mlb won’t be playing the all-star game in those countries either!


5 posted on 06/01/2021 2:56:49 PM PDT by ealgeone
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Those racist Europeans!/s


6 posted on 06/01/2021 4:32:30 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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bkmk


7 posted on 06/01/2021 4:48:48 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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The only reason to oppose it is if you intend to cheat.


8 posted on 06/01/2021 5:14:13 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lion Den Dan

They know that voter suppression mantra is a lie. The truth is they want a system where they can cheat.


9 posted on 06/01/2021 5:19:40 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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Don’t try to inject logic into this situation, racist.


10 posted on 06/01/2021 5:37:33 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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So 46 of 47 European countries require voter ID?

But none of them let African-Americans vote.

So they are practicing voter suppression on steroids.

/s

11 posted on 06/01/2021 6:18:19 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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But, but black people are too stupid to be able get photo ID.. Just ask the democrats, they’ll tell you../s


12 posted on 06/02/2021 5:46:46 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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Let’s argue for copying the election system from some country the Left always mentions as superior.

Sweden, Norway, Canada, Germany, etc.


13 posted on 06/02/2021 2:01:13 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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Yeah, those countries don’t have lying crooked democrats.


14 posted on 06/02/2021 8:32:37 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: richardb72

Australia has had compulsory voting for the past 100 years or so and there is no requirement to show ID.

Voter fraud isn’t a hot button issue here as with over 90% of the eligible voters voting in every election it makes cheating more difficult. Plus voting is all paper based (no voting machines) and voting day is always on a Saturday (as opposed to a Tuesday in the US). Also there is the allure of the ‘Democracy sausage’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage).

That said, with elections occasionally coming down to a handful of votes in a handful of seats, the idea of voter ID comes up with similar divides (conservatives for, leftists against) and similar arguments for and against.


15 posted on 06/02/2021 10:42:34 PM PDT by Dundee (They gave up all their tomorrows for our today's.)
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I think Election Day should be a holiday NO MORE voting for weeks ahead of time!!


16 posted on 06/02/2021 10:46:20 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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17 posted on 06/04/2021 5:56:09 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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