The Feb. 1 editorial reprinted from the Austin Daily Herald has an interesting point of view on voter ID issue.

Without an ID law, we have no idea of size of voter fraud so let’s not issue IDs and we have no problem? In the Senate election recount, we found more votes counted than there were people who voted? In the governor’s recount, the secretary of state didn’t check number of voters against votes counted. Again we have no problem?

With today’s technology and card readers, we would have an instant count of number of voters and number of votes cast. The voter lists are computerized, so it would take much less time to find names speeding up the voting process. Signatures could be done electronically again speeding up the process. It would also make it more difficult to shape the results in recounts.

John Forman

Albert Lea