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My partner worked as a volunteer election poll worker in 2016. It was her job to take everyone's id and check it against a database to ensure that the person wa
by todd8 4y ago
My partner worked as a volunteer election poll worker in 2016. It was her job to take everyone's id and check it against a database to ensure that the person was on the voting rolls. 13 people came in to vote that either voted already at another location or had voted during the period of early voting allowed by our state. This amounted to approximately 1% of the voters that were processed by her that day.
There were no consequences for trying to vote twice, these people were simply turned away. (There was a mechanism for resolving disputes too. Provisional ballots could be given to voters and these would be counted only if the race was close enough for provisional votes to make a difference in which case these votes would be adjudicated before being accepted.)
- adamrezich 4y ago> There were no consequences for trying to vote twice, these people were simply turned away. can everyone agree that this is insane? it should be at least a federal crime to attempt to cast a fraudulent ballot in a federal election. surely, everyone here—pro- or anti-voter ID—should agree with this?
- ok_dad 4y agoThe system worked fine here, they were turned away, no need to get all legal about things. If they had actually voted twice, go get ‘em.
- adamrezich 4y agowhy should an attempted crime go unpunished?
- ok_dad 4y agoI get it, but why spend resources "punishing" a feeble attempt which was immediately turned away? Maybe take their names down and audit the voter logs to make sure those folks haven't actually voted two times, but honestly it's just a waste of time and money to "punish" these folks.
- adamrezich 4y agoto deter it from happening again in the future? game theory wise if attempting voter fraud goes unpunished, then the optimal thing to do in order to win is to attempt as much voter fraud as possible, as you have nothing to lose by trying. is this not about as self-evident as it could possibly be?
- ok_dad 4y agoI think it’s a few dumb individuals who won’t get anywhere with their schemes, not some organized group trying to overturn an election.
- adamrezich 4y agowhat makes you think that?