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> what happens when the real me shows up? What happens is that it becomes immediately obvious that voter fraud has happened, and a criminal investigation begin
by wtallis 6y ago
> what happens when the real me shows up?
What happens is that it becomes immediately obvious that voter fraud has happened, and a criminal investigation begins before the results of the election can be certified.
In addition to being basically impossible to scale up to an effective volume, this form of election fraud is also extremely difficult to pull off without getting caught. So it's really more of a (hypothetical) public nuisance leading to election do-overs, than an effective way to subvert the outcome of an election.
- mikeyouse 6y agoExactly, and each one of the fraudulent votes would consist of a separate felony. So you'd have to wrangle enough people into your conspiracy and convince them all to commit several felonies without having any idea how close the election was going to be. It's not a coincidence that it's an extremely effective way to target "specific" voters in order to depress turnout either.