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>We have so little verification in this regard, and so little transparency, that there's actually a debate as to whether this even occurs or not and is a proble
by undersuit 8y ago
>We have so little verification in this regard, and so little transparency, that there's actually a debate as to whether this even occurs or not and is a problem. Not really enough data to know.
No there hasn't. The accusations of voter fraud have come from one party and one party only. They are lying out their teeth and the party will support them regardless.
"He later admitted during cross-examination that he had no personal knowledge as to whether or not any of these individuals had in fact falsely asserted U.S. citizenship when they became registered to vote and he did not examine the facts of these individual cases." ->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky#False_claims_about_voter_fraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky#False_claim...
"The vast majority of voter ID laws in the United States target only voter impersonation, of which there are only 31 documented cases in the United States from the 2000–2014 period" ->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_impersonation_(United_States)#Estimates_of_frequency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_impersonation_(United_St...
"the commission followed through on previous false claims by Trump that millions of illegal immigrants had voted in the 2016 United States presidential election" ->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Advisory_Commission_on_Election_Integrity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Advisory_Commissi...
- tomohawk 8y agoIf I go to do pretty much any financial transaction, I need to show ID. Voting seems a bit more important, with higher stakes, no? Voter fraud has been going on a long time. Here's an example from 1978 that could be happening today, but thanks to the "see no evil, hear no evil" approach to validating identities, we wouldn't know. https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/17/archives/followers-say-jim-jones-directed-voting-frauds-busloads-of-voters.html https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/17/archives/followers-say-ji... Trying to make this somehow a partisan issue - well.
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