Does This Make The Case for Voter ID?

Project Veritas, you know the right leaning video investigation outfit headed by the mildly famous (at least in some political media circles) James O'Keefe, is out with their latest video investigation/reveal.  

In the video the Veritas team records themselves requesting and receiving ballots to vote in the 2012 New Hampshire Presidential Primary using names of recently deceased New Hampshire voters.  They are handed ballots after giving only a deceased voters name. In some cases the precinct workers try to confirm the right person is front of them offering the address on file - with zero success.   I don't think this video is intended to be a commentary on the very hard working New Hampshire poll workers - these good people appear to be doing exactly what's asked and required of them under New jumpHampshire law.  

What this video does highlight is how incredibly easy it is receive a ballot to vote throughout this country by simply knowing a few details about a person.  While the Veritas folks were only asking for ballots of the deceased - imagine a concerted effort to go in and pull ballots in the name of non-deceased voters, also known as living voters.  Let's put it this way - say someone intent on receiving a ballot in another person's name, say Jane Doe goes into a local polling location, receives Jane Doe's ballot, votes, and walks on out the door.  5 minutes later the real Jane Doe walks in, gives her name, and is told no - you've already voted.  Her vote has been stolen, right?  A seemingly simple step of requesting for a form of government issued photo identification could've frustrated the efforts for the fake Jane Doe, protecting the real Jane Doe's right to vote.  

With some organization, this can be done on a grander scale.  

Put another way - this type of voter fraud is scalable - and that should be worrisome.  

Often government has a habit of fighting the last problem, as opposed to trying to figure out what the next problem will be.  It's time to start looking over the horizon to combat voter fraud, instead of waiting for voter fraud to come to our polling places in real, large, election shifting numbers.    

Getting government issued photo identification into the hands of citizens isn't hard.  The advances in technology, in mobility, security, and price (meaning it's cheap) make a solution to this problem more attainable than it's ever been.  

Check out the video below.