Well, that was blunt.
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The overview of the difficulties people face in getting their free photo ID, rests entirely on living > 10 miles away from the nearest ID-providing office open "more than 2 days a week". So, they could live next door to an office that provides free photo IDs twice per week, but they would be counted as someone facing prohibitive difficulties getting a free ID. I hope the AI genius' AIs draw better conclusions than he does. He is well and truly lost in his righteous tribalism.
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I have a dumb question. If you don't need to supply ID when voting, what's to stop a person from voting more than once?
I guess they just check whether a registered voter self-reported as voting more than once. So the trick to voting more than once, is to vote as a registered voter who didn't vote, and also vote as yourself, showing ID neither time. This seems a low-risk felony to commit. I bet the statistics of double-voters (most of which are presumably attempted felony voter fraud) aren't reported. And of course when it works, that's not reported either. But we confidently say there is no appreciable voter fraud. How do we know?
@Horace said in Well, that was blunt.:
I have a dumb question. If you don't need to supply ID when voting, what's to stop a person from voting more than once?
Everywhere I’ve voted they look up your registration in a book, and you sign next to it before they give you a ballot. This provides signature verification as well as checking off that you voted.
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@Horace said in Well, that was blunt.:
I have a dumb question. If you don't need to supply ID when voting, what's to stop a person from voting more than once?
Everywhere I’ve voted they look up your registration in a book, and you sign next to it before they give you a ballot. This provides signature verification as well as checking off that you voted.
@jon-nyc said in Well, that was blunt.:
@Horace said in Well, that was blunt.:
I have a dumb question. If you don't need to supply ID when voting, what's to stop a person from voting more than once?
Everywhere I’ve voted they look up your registration in a book, and you sign next to it before they give you a ballot. This provides signature verification as well as checking off that you voted.
Yes I mentioned this in the rest of that post. I know you probably skip my posts longer than two sentences as a rule, but they are often extremely informative, so you're really missing out.
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I have a dumb question. If you don't need to supply ID when voting, what's to stop a person from voting more than once?
I guess they just check whether a registered voter self-reported as voting more than once. So the trick to voting more than once, is to vote as a registered voter who didn't vote, and also vote as yourself, showing ID neither time. This seems a low-risk felony to commit. I bet the statistics of double-voters (most of which are presumably attempted felony voter fraud) aren't reported. And of course when it works, that's not reported either. But we confidently say there is no appreciable voter fraud. How do we know?
@Horace said in Well, that was blunt.:
I guess they just check whether a registered voter self-reported as voting more than once. So the trick to voting more than once, is to vote as a registered voter who didn't vote, and also vote as yourself, showing ID neither time. This seems a low-risk felony to commit.
I don’t know how low it is. The people in my town that work the polls are local. They may well know Joe Smith when I pretend to be him.
What it is, however, is a felony with zero reward. Adding one vote to the total gives you nothing. Voter fraud that requires actual humans faking registrations or faking names doesn’t scale well. To have an impact you’d need thousands of participants at which point the odds of it getting discovered approach 1.
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@Horace said in Well, that was blunt.:
I guess they just check whether a registered voter self-reported as voting more than once. So the trick to voting more than once, is to vote as a registered voter who didn't vote, and also vote as yourself, showing ID neither time. This seems a low-risk felony to commit.
I don’t know how low it is. The people in my town that work the polls are local. They may well know Joe Smith when I pretend to be him.
What it is, however, is a felony with zero reward. Adding one vote to the total gives you nothing. Voter fraud that requires actual humans faking registrations or faking names doesn’t scale well. To have an impact you’d need thousands of participants at which point the odds of it getting discovered approach 1.
The Long machine did not hand out bags of cash for nothing. Whether it was buying votes or rigging machines, it was done. There is nothing that man has ever made that can't be cheated.
For things as important as election integrity, we have to make cheating as hard as possible.
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I can see where handing cash to pastors to get their voters to the polls could be effective, and probably could be done in a way that doesn’t violate the letter of the law. But to try to get thousands of people to sign up for a felony seems really difficult. Inevitably some will refuse and talk.
Manipulation at the counting point is different obviously. There you could have a large effect with a handful of people, at least in theory.
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I can see where handing cash to pastors to get their voters to the polls could be effective, and probably could be done in a way that doesn’t violate the letter of the law. But to try to get thousands of people to sign up for a felony seems really difficult. Inevitably some will refuse and talk.
Manipulation at the counting point is different obviously. There you could have a large effect with a handful of people, at least in theory.
@jon-nyc said in Well, that was blunt.:
But to try to get thousands of people to sign up for a felony seems really difficult. Inevitably some will refuse and talk.
This. In the age where everyone wants to be famous for 15 minutes it is not reasonable to expect there is massive voter fraud with no one talking.
(BTW, in general, having a photo ID to vote is not a bad idea. I believe that in most (all?) US states, if you cannot get a driver license, you can still get a state ID.)
