RNC spokesman Defends fighting Nonexistent Voting Fraud

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Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer compared requiring photo identification at the polls to locking your house at night during an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday.

Spicer said he found it “extremely insulting” to suggest that “there was any effort, by anyone, to surpress the vote” and defended state legislatures that have passed voter ID laws. He said requiring photo identification at the polls was equivalent to a homeowner locking his doors at night.

“You do it not because it has a history of being broken into, but because you regard your property and your personal well-being as something precious and you want to protect it,” Spicer told MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts. “It’s not because there’s a history of necessarily your home being broken into, and so I think the question comes down, when it comes to protecting our right to vote. It’s not necessarily has there been rampant voter fraud in every state that we have to protect, it says this is a precious right that each of us has as an American.”

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It is true that we lock our doors even if our house has not been broken into.

Why do we do that?

Because in 2005, law enforcement agencies reported an estimated 2,154,126 burglary offenses. That's why.

Burglary, unlike in-person voter fraud, is not an imaginary crime.

[Blue Meany]

1. Fallacious Analogy. Locking your door doesn't keep out people who are entitled to access to

your house. Now, if you lock your door but refuse to give keys to your kids, that would be a appropriate analogy.