Wall Street Journal.  “Backers of voter-ID laws say the extent of fraud is beside the point. “We don’t pass laws against fraud to stop election results from changing,” said J. Christian Adams, an election lawyer in Alexandria, Va., and advocate for voter-ID laws who blogs about election law. “We pass laws against voter fraud because the system must be free from corruption.” He rejected the notion that corrupt election officials wouldn’t enforce the laws. “You don’t facilitate criminal activity in any other area of life by saying officials won’t enforce laws against fraud, murder, theft,” Adams added.”

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Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank who has written about voter fraud and backs voter-ID laws, said a voter ID “doesn’t just protect against impersonation fraud. It also deters voting under false voter registrations, including the use of phony names or false addresses. It also protects against voting by illegal aliens. It can also deter voting by those registered in more than one state.” He added, of impersonation fraud, “No one claims this is ‘widespread.’