The Tennessee legislature recently passed a law ostensibly aimed at preventing voter fraud. However, fraud by impersonation is almost non-existent in Tennessee. In the only court case extant, it was actually the Memphis poll workers themselves who fraudulently cast votes in the name of dead people in order to "stuff the ballot box."
No case of an individual voter's casting a vote, or attempting to cast a vote, in any name but his own legal name is on record.
The effect of the photo ID requirement is to disenfranchise many poor people, including those residing in rural areas, and the elderly and the minority poor.
If you are a Tennessee resident, please go here to sign a petition that the Tennessee legislature pass a bill to repeal this law which has placed a very unnecessary barrier in the path of the poor and of students in Tennessee colleges, when they attempt to exercise their constitutional right to vote in Tennessee elections.
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