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First, all these alleged problems exist for absentee ballots, and yet no one complains about that. Second, voting fraud is exceptionally rare in the United Sta

First, all these alleged problems exist for absentee ballots, and yet no one complains about that. Second, voting fraud is exceptionally rare in the United States. Even if you tried to purchase votes, you can’t purchase enough to shade an election, and stay clandestine. It’s simply too expensive. A much more effective and efficient use of money is to encourage voter suppression — especially legal voter suppression.

PureParadigm 6y ago
> First, all these alleged problems exist for absentee ballots, and yet no one complains about that. Fair enough. > Second, voting fraud is exceptionally rare in the United States This doesn't make sense as a justification for relaxing restrictions. Perhaps it is because of the existing restrictions that fraud is so difficult and low, so then relaxing restrictions en-masse would increase the rate of fraud. I'm not saying this is definitely the case, but citing a low current rate of fraud as justification for making fraud easier doesn't make any sense at all. > Even if you tried to purchase votes, you can’t purchase enough to shade an election, and stay clandestine In most cases, this is true. But there are elections that are decided by a few dozen votes (maybe local elections, and more rarely larger elections), so a small amount of fraud could change the result.
- enitihas 6y ago
  The 2000 US Presidential election was decided on a handful of Florida votes, so elections do get decided on a few dozen votes.