<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bill,<div><br></div><div>You're right about the absentee ballots being easier to add illegal voters, ONCE they get on the voter registration lists, but the up side of it is, not only has the perpetrator committed the state crime of voter fraud, but</div><div>the feds no can jump in due to the fraudulent use of the mails, so prosecution wise, there are two bites of the apple.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Bill London wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Regarding the voter ID bill passed by the Idaho House of Representatives (voters would have to show photo ID to vote).....</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">according to an email message from Tom Trail, absentee voters would be exempt from the photo ID provision.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">I am pleased that the bill exempts absentee voters (who by definition do not choose to, or are not able to, go to the polls), however I wonder how this bill stops voter fraud. If someone wanted to add illegal voters, this would just provide the vehicle to do so (sign up and vote absentee over and over again)</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">BL</font></div>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>