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There is fraud in every election. All polls have a margin of error, and that includes polling places. Like all fraud, we don’t want to spend enough resources t

There is fraud in every election. All polls have a margin of error, and that includes polling places. Like all fraud, we don’t want to spend enough resources to eliminate it entirely, because this has negative effects on legitimate customers/voters. There was an article recently by patio11 about how credit cards choose a level of fraud to tolerate in the interest of the system functioning. Voting works the same way; restrictions on mail ballots and ID requirements limit more legitimate voters than fraudulent votes, so a prudent approach is to only investigate in cases where it makes a difference. We call these recounts in elections, and audits in finance. If conservatives want to run the country more like a business, well, this is their chance.

kthejoker2 4y ago
Literally millions of dollars available to anyone who can find and prove fraud. In a country of 150 million voters voting in dozens of local, state, and federal elections over the last 20 years, there have been less than 100 convictions for voter fraud, and almost all of those are inadvertently illegal votes by felons, new residents not correctly registered, students voting in their college town elections, et cetera. There is NO significant fraud in American elections. ZERO.
danrocks 4y ago
> restrictions on mail ballots and ID requirements limit more legitimate voters than fraudulent votes Here's some evidence of the opposite: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/21/voting-is-surging-georgia-despite-controversial-new-election-law/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/21/voting-is...