> Plus, the number of people who are might be affected is most likely dwarfed by the number of fraudulent votes that happen every single election, but that some people would rather not try to prevent.

This is the exact opposite of reality, and the opposite of basically every attempt[1] to investigate the prevalence of voter fraud.

The number of actual fraudulent votes is somewhere in the single to low double digits, it makes the news when it happens because it's extraordinarily rare. And it's a felony with virtually no real benefit for the person committing it.

And even some of those few cases were people who simply weren't supposed to vote, like the woman in Texas that was just sent to prison for it, not people who didn't have identification. Texas has a voter ID law.

The hyper-focus on one very specific kind of potential voter fraud, with virtually no evidence that it's even a problem, is suspicious on its face.

That voter ID proponents keep ignoring simple facts about the actual incidence of voter ID fraud, while dismissing all other concerns, strongly suggests they're arguing in bad faith.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-com...