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isn't that cute.... here read this one...
https://www.heritage.org/election-i...exposes-thousands-illegal-votes-2016-election
https://www.heritage.org/election-i...exposes-thousands-illegal-votes-2016-election
Unfortunately, it's a statistically flawed study.
https://electionupdates.caltech.edu/2017/09/11/report-on-voter-fraud-rife-with-inaccuracies/
https://medium.com/@max.hailperin/presidential-advisory-commission-on-election-integrity-september-12-2017-meeting-materials-4512dd139ee6
Even assuming the 45000 votes was true, that means 0.03% of votes cast in 2016 were fraudulent. I don't think anyone could call that rampant.
https://electionupdates.caltech.edu/2017/09/11/report-on-voter-fraud-rife-with-inaccuracies/
https://medium.com/@max.hailperin/presidential-advisory-commission-on-election-integrity-september-12-2017-meeting-materials-4512dd139ee6
Even assuming the 45000 votes was true, that means 0.03% of votes cast in 2016 were fraudulent. I don't think anyone could call that rampant.
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yeah, I was making a point about the silly link to the WaPo.
There is no way to know how bad voter fraud is, or isn't. Until we have voter ID, nobody will ever know.
remember when the spoof guy asked for Eric Holder's ballot, and it was given to him? That's how easy it is.
California is far, far worse.... absolutely no way to know how bad it is, or isn't.
We should not have to limp through such silly and archaic voting processes in this day and age... it's freaking criminal, and totally partisan.
There is no way to know how bad voter fraud is, or isn't. Until we have voter ID, nobody will ever know.
remember when the spoof guy asked for Eric Holder's ballot, and it was given to him? That's how easy it is.
California is far, far worse.... absolutely no way to know how bad it is, or isn't.
We should not have to limp through such silly and archaic voting processes in this day and age... it's freaking criminal, and totally partisan.
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Not necessarily,
If a few hundred or even less votes can swing a congressional seat (and they can) and you can swing 10-20 seats with those 45,000 illegal or fraudulent votes, then that is by any reasonably definition rampant voter fraud, looking at that study I would argue their number including their moe is way off but assuming they are spot on it is still rampant voter fraud.
In Texas, they just modified a voting law (I don't specifically know the details but I'm sure someone on here does) a seat that has been democrat for 100 years just turned republican. Is that voter fraud, don't know won't hazard a guess, but it would be interesting if someone did a deep dive analysis to find out.
For me it's a simple issue, to claim that someone cannot get the proper id to vote given everything else you need a proper id to purchase is one of the 2 things
1. You are telling those people they are too ignorant to use the same Id they use to cash a check, purchase alcohol, board a plane and so on. To borrow from the hyperbole bandwagon, I would suspect 99.5% of legal voters already have an id that would suffice to meet a voter id law and they could make it extraordinarily simple for those who don't.
2. You are trying to hide something
Everyone of these studies is flawed and most are simply trying to prove the bias they went in with, here's a real world example of a 'maybe, maybe not' voter fraud situation - in Ca they sent out hundreds of ballots to one apartment in So Cal, accident, perhaps, perhaps not and there is no way to know for sure, what is known is that it is not a one time incident.
There's simply no legitimate reason not to have a voter id law on the books, the technology has existed for years to do it, to track it and to have a continuously updated registration system it would also make the move to e-voting (it's coming) a far less complex effort.
If a few hundred or even less votes can swing a congressional seat (and they can) and you can swing 10-20 seats with those 45,000 illegal or fraudulent votes, then that is by any reasonably definition rampant voter fraud, looking at that study I would argue their number including their moe is way off but assuming they are spot on it is still rampant voter fraud.
In Texas, they just modified a voting law (I don't specifically know the details but I'm sure someone on here does) a seat that has been democrat for 100 years just turned republican. Is that voter fraud, don't know won't hazard a guess, but it would be interesting if someone did a deep dive analysis to find out.
For me it's a simple issue, to claim that someone cannot get the proper id to vote given everything else you need a proper id to purchase is one of the 2 things
1. You are telling those people they are too ignorant to use the same Id they use to cash a check, purchase alcohol, board a plane and so on. To borrow from the hyperbole bandwagon, I would suspect 99.5% of legal voters already have an id that would suffice to meet a voter id law and they could make it extraordinarily simple for those who don't.
2. You are trying to hide something
Everyone of these studies is flawed and most are simply trying to prove the bias they went in with, here's a real world example of a 'maybe, maybe not' voter fraud situation - in Ca they sent out hundreds of ballots to one apartment in So Cal, accident, perhaps, perhaps not and there is no way to know for sure, what is known is that it is not a one time incident.
There's simply no legitimate reason not to have a voter id law on the books, the technology has existed for years to do it, to track it and to have a continuously updated registration system it would also make the move to e-voting (it's coming) a far less complex effort.
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Is Blockchain Technology the Future of Voting?
In Mac Warner’s 23 years in the U.S. Army, he experienced firsthand the hurdles of voting from abroad. “On a hillside in Afghanistan, it’s hard to get mail, it’s hard to ship it out,” he says.
As West Virginia’s secretary of state, Warner wants to help deployed service members to more easily cast a ballot—only 20 percent of the state’s overseas military personnel voted in 2016. He also wants to bolster election security.
In the state’s primary in May, Warner got his wish. A pilot program enabling voting via a blockchain network allowed his son Scott—an Army first lieutenant in Vicenza, Italy—to cast a ballot with his smartphone. “In the same amount of time that I could’ve pulled up and watched a YouTube video,” Scott Warner says, “I actually got to go perform my civic duty.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-10/is-blockchain-technology-the-future-of-voting
In Mac Warner’s 23 years in the U.S. Army, he experienced firsthand the hurdles of voting from abroad. “On a hillside in Afghanistan, it’s hard to get mail, it’s hard to ship it out,” he says.
As West Virginia’s secretary of state, Warner wants to help deployed service members to more easily cast a ballot—only 20 percent of the state’s overseas military personnel voted in 2016. He also wants to bolster election security.
In the state’s primary in May, Warner got his wish. A pilot program enabling voting via a blockchain network allowed his son Scott—an Army first lieutenant in Vicenza, Italy—to cast a ballot with his smartphone. “In the same amount of time that I could’ve pulled up and watched a YouTube video,” Scott Warner says, “I actually got to go perform my civic duty.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-10/is-blockchain-technology-the-future-of-voting
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Exactly, like people turning in absentee ballots for multiple people from the same address that turn out to be dead or unrelated senior citizens that are actually in nursing homes. If you catch 1 there are more you didn't catch. And it would be easier to catch if Democrats didn't fight the auditing of voter roles and voter id.
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using that logic of absence of proof/evidence-based findings.
What was your opinion of Dr. Ford's testimony about Kavanaugh's character?
What was your opinion of Dr. Ford's testimony about Kavanaugh's character?
I can think of only one reason why someone wouldn't be concerned about voter fraud and wouldn't want to do everything possible to eliminate it, they think it helps their side. On the other hand, Russians!
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I think the voter registrations are more a product of identity fraud for registering for fake credit cards via motor voter bill than actual vote casters. It's a problem, but I think it has more to do with the ease of access of credit in our society that can be exploited through financial deviance than a voter fraud issue.
Voter Fraud in my opinion is used to limit poor people especially in rural areas from voting. I feel that the media makes it more of an anti black thing versus an anti poor thing. It's not the same thing, but that follows the 3/5 compromise, redlining of districts and racial gerrymandering for political gain.
Voter Fraud in my opinion is used to limit poor people especially in rural areas from voting. I feel that the media makes it more of an anti black thing versus an anti poor thing. It's not the same thing, but that follows the 3/5 compromise, redlining of districts and racial gerrymandering for political gain.
I have never ever, even once, been asked for my voter registration for any financial transaction that I have ever conducted. I have never ever been asked for voter registration when registering a motor vehicle.... it' is the OPPOSITE - in CA you are automatically registered when you complete your motor vehicle registration.
Poor people in rural areas most likely already receive federal aid, for which they must have identification. If there are some that need assistance in obtaining an ID, then it is a very, very small number, and can be accommodated very cheaply. That is not an issue and if it's a "concern" it can easily be remedied.
You're creating a problem that doesn't even exist, and dismissing all possible solutions because you don't care to have voting done right... that has to be it.
The 3/5ths compromise was designed to give blacks MORE recognition, not less.
Poor people in rural areas most likely already receive federal aid, for which they must have identification. If there are some that need assistance in obtaining an ID, then it is a very, very small number, and can be accommodated very cheaply. That is not an issue and if it's a "concern" it can easily be remedied.
You're creating a problem that doesn't even exist, and dismissing all possible solutions because you don't care to have voting done right... that has to be it.
The 3/5ths compromise was designed to give blacks MORE recognition, not less.
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You’re right on all fronts, there’s nothing that says tolerance like telling someone they’re not intelligent enough to obtain a valid id, which, to borrow from Sen Collins, it’s more likely they already have than not.
Here’s an interesting read
https://publicinterestlegal.org/blog/248-counties-registered-voters-live-adults/
Does having more registered voters than eligible voters mean voter fraud occurred, not necessarily but it means the system is fouled up and highly likely to be taken advantage of.
Here’s an interesting read
https://publicinterestlegal.org/blog/248-counties-registered-voters-live-adults/
Does having more registered voters than eligible voters mean voter fraud occurred, not necessarily but it means the system is fouled up and highly likely to be taken advantage of.
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There are 2 separate issues
1. Voter fraud - intentional & a crime albeit one that is not often punished indefensible under any circumstance
2. Illegal voting - unintentional and thus not fraud and many times has a legitimate rational behind it
I think when you conflate them that is a mistake, I think that is what most of the studies do. Again, too many registered is not in and of itself fraud nor does it mean that any illegal votes were counted, it just means the system is broken.
Both threaten the validity of our elections, both are unnecessary, both are easily identifiable and both can be easily remedied, if politicians wanted to.
1. Voter fraud - intentional & a crime albeit one that is not often punished indefensible under any circumstance
2. Illegal voting - unintentional and thus not fraud and many times has a legitimate rational behind it
I think when you conflate them that is a mistake, I think that is what most of the studies do. Again, too many registered is not in and of itself fraud nor does it mean that any illegal votes were counted, it just means the system is broken.
Both threaten the validity of our elections, both are unnecessary, both are easily identifiable and both can be easily remedied, if politicians wanted to.
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