Voter ID is a reaction to the imaginary, nonexistent problem of in-person voter fraud. When Senator Frank Lombardi imagines the law’s repeal, he recounts a weird nightmare scenario in which sleazy politicians send imposters to the polls and forever alter the political landscape.
I heard echoes of the Ghostbusters’ Dr. Peter Venkman in Lombardi’s delivery, “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!”
Senator Lombardi continues by inventing the statistic that 99% of politicians are ethical, which gets a great reaction from Republican Senator Dawson Hodges: