Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want to steal my vote, specifically, you can certainly do it. Better get there early though, I vote in the morning. To scale such an effort up to materially affect an election would be incredibly difficult to do, and easy to spot. > If that's really stopping people from voting, then there's something wrong with our DMVs, etc. The DMV sucks: this is news?
On the one hand, I can agree with you. I don't see someone managing to fake 1000s of votes by walking in without identification. That would require a lot of manpower, I imagine. On the other, I think you or I would still be pretty annoyed if someone had walked in and voted for us.
Of course I don't have to _imagine_ this scenario, because it happens every year.
Real harm, happening right now vs an imaginary harm that happens so rarely we essentially have to guess what form it would take... this is an easy one.
(re: guessing what form it would take -- if we're going to imagine a fake voting threat, we can just as easily imagine that these same people have the capability to get fake licenses. That happens _all the time_, after all, in college towns across the country. Amazingly these people seem to all use their fake licenses to get a drink, and not to go vote illegally for other people. Silly them!)