His campaign raised issues, including saying that ballots were not available at a polling place at Carroll Hill Elementary School; that people were discouraged from voting; that voters were asked for
ID at polling places at the Rensselaer County Office Building, in which the board offices are located; that the School 12 polling place was locked with no instructions on how to get inside; and that Wiltshire poll watchers were harassed by board employees about encouraging people to cast affidavit ballots.
Not exact matches
(Except that
ID is otherwise not required
at the
polling place.)
To the contrary, Appellants concede that the only type of voter fraud that the Photo -
ID Requirement prevents is in - person voter impersonation fraud
at the
polling place.
It's simple and effective in practice but politically difficult to put in
place because there are approximately 100,000,000 freeloaders and a significant fraction of them can vote if there's no one
at the
polling place checking
ID cards against outstanding arrest warrants or felony convictions.
The main reason for the permissibility of the Act is that it includes a «reasonable impediment» provision, allowing «registered voters with non-photo voter registration cards to vote without photo
IDs, so long as they fill out an affidavit
at the
polling place and indicate the reason that they have not obtained an R54 - listed photo
ID.»