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no one denies that voter fraud is possible. the more important question is whether voter fraud is a serious threat to the voting process, and there's no evidenc
by prepperpotts 6y ago
no one denies that voter fraud is possible. the more important question is whether voter fraud is a serious threat to the voting process, and there's no evidence of this.
collecting ballots from the mailboxes of dead people is not exactly a scalable enough way to rig an election for the democrats to warrant serious concern — especially considering how the hardest-struck communities vote democratic anyway. and besides, if you wanted to request a ballot for your sick roommate to perpetuate voter fraud, you could already pull that off in most states.
mail-in-ballot fraud concern-trolling is a long-established propaganda effort that doesn't have to be addressed on a case-by-case basis
- downerending 6y agoThat's a point. But it might be that large-scale fraud hasn't really happened yet because the opportunity hasn't really happened yet. We're starting to hear a few accounts of "ballot harvesting", and I suspect we'll go through several generations of fixes before this becomes as reliable as in-person voting. (Personally, I don't really care. I give my ballot to my wife to vote anyway.)
- mrnook 6y agolol that's technically voter fraud too
- fareesh 6y agoWhat is the number of fraudulent votes required to make it a serious threat? Hundreds? Thousands? How would you know a priori if it is a serious threat without the final tally? Gore v Bush 2000 had a very close total in Florida. Would it not be a serious threat in a similar situation?