Voter ID Laws May Have Actually Increased The Likelihood Of Voter Fraud—By Hackers

States that passed voter ID laws didn't just potentially disenfranchise voters. They made their elections more vulnerable to hackers.

Over the past 16 years, only 10 cases of voter impersonation—out of 146 million registered voters—have ever been identified. And yet each election, a vocal political contingent made up primarily of Republicans complains about an alleged epidemic of voter fraud and impersonation. To combat it, they propose—and in many cases successfully pass—laws requiring voters to provide verification of their identity with an ID card, along with verbal confirmation of various pieces of personal data, before they are permitted to vote.

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