Title: Voter Fraud: Non-Existent Problem or Election-Threatening Epidemic? - ABC News
Headings: Voter Fraud: Non-Existent Problem or Election-Threatening Epidemic?
Voter Fraud: Non-Existent Problem or Election-Threatening Epidemic?
Content: Ali checked the "yes" box to register to vote while applying for a driver's license in Florida. Although he never tried to vote, Ali was deported back to Pakistan for allegedly committing voter fraud. "What are the costs for non-citizens to cast ballots and what are the benefits? It doesn't add up," said Minnite, who testified against Pennsylvania's voter ID law. " The costs are very high and the benefits are practically non-existent." Tracy Campbell, a history professor at the University of Kentucky who studies voter fraud in past elections, said contemporary voter ID laws are trying to solve a problem that hasn't existed in over a century. "This would prevent you from going to the polls and claiming that you're Mary Smith so you vote as Mary Smith then you come back later and vote as Mary Joan," Campbell said. " Repeating was a problem a century ago and these laws would have been good for that, but it's a non-event now." In trying to solve that problem, critics say, the new voter ID laws could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters who cannot obtain the necessary documents. In Pennsylvania, where Metcalfe's voter ID law will be in effect for the November election, at least 90,000 eligible voters did not have an ID that met the law's requirements to vote, according to initial estimates by the Pennsylvania Department of State.