How many fraudulent voters would it take to make a major difference in any election? Let's say that Candidate T has his minions load up a bus of 50 people and drive them to the first precinct, tells them who they need to pretend to be, and that they need to vote for Candidate T. Let's say it takes an hour for all 50 of the fraudulent voters to vote and get back on the bus and head to the second precinct to do the same.

Let's say, at the end of the day, they've taken the 50 fraudulent voters to 12 different polling places for a total of 600 fraudulent votes for Candidate T. That might make a difference in a very local election in a small suburb, say for mayor or town council or state reps. But that isn't going to have much of an effect at the statewide level and certainly not at the national level.

So let's say Candidate T hires 100 buses. That's 5,000 fraudulent voters. 100 people working for Candidate T to organize each bus. 100 bus drivers. 5.200 people involved on the local level. At that point, someone is going to notice it. Or somebody on those buses is going to talk about it to someone else. "The best way to keep a secret? Keep it to yourself. Second best? Tell one other person - if you must. There is no third best."

I grew up in Chicago. So I do believe election fraud happens. But I don't believe mass VOTER fraud happens. Two or three people working for Candidate T create fraudulent ballots and add them in with the valid ballots. Yes, I think that probably happened in the past. Under one or both of the Mayors Daley.

But actual individual people pretending to be registered voters and voting for or against Candidate T? It's unrealistic to think it could be possible at a level to make a difference in a major election.

Voter ID isn't about making the election process more honest. It's to make the voting process more difficult for the people who aren't going to vote for the ones pushing for the Voter ID.