[cartman]

I had to cast a provisional ballot this last election because my name didn't match exactly between my driver's license and the voter registration card. The voter registration has 'Greg', and my driver's license said 'Gregory'. When you cast a provisional ballot, you have to go back to a county office within 4 days with supporting evidence. When I did that, they said that I shouldn't have had to cast a provisional ballot, since the names were substantially similar. Who knows how many other people had the same thing happen to them, and either didn't/couldn't follow up at the courthouse. I bet the number is a huge multiple of the found previous cases of voter fraud.

The number never was that 500,000 people tried to get IDs and failed, it was that number had a previously accepted ID that was used for voter registration, and with the new law would have to get another one.