News Flash: Rand Paul says dead people have voted, there is some fraud and he supports voter ID

The Washington Post reports that Rand Paul believes dead people have voted, there is fraud but perhaps it has been overstated, early voting should not be eliminated and that he supports voter ID.

From the transcript:
PAUL: Dead people do still vote in some elections. There still is some fraud. And so we should stop that, and one way of doing it is (driver’s licenses).
AXELROD: Although the incidence of fraud is relatively small.
PAUL: It probably is, and I think Republicans may have over-emphasized this. I don’t know.
Paul did say that he supports voter ID efforts as a minimal standard and noted that you have to present an ID to enter government offices.

“I don’t think early voting is biased one way or the other,” Paul said. “So I think eliminating it is a mistake for the — Republicans who want to make their whole thing eliminating early voting, I think that’s a mistake.”

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