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You forgot a very important part of this equation: you have to commit fraud and get away with it undetected for it to be an issue. These folks were found to ha
by ttfkam 3y ago
You forgot a very important part of this equation: you have to commit fraud and get away with it undetected for it to be an issue.
These folks were found to have voted when they shouldn't have, whether intentional or not. (And I do think intent should definitely come into play here, as it does in most areas of law.) But you and the Washington Examiner blithely skip over the part where the illegitimate votes were found out and dealt with.
I NEVER said folks would never attempt to commit voter fraud. I asserted that the kinds of voter fraud associated with in-person voting were never successful even without stricter ID requirements. I asserted that large scale in-precinct ballot stuffing simply would not work.
There is one area where someone could vote multiple times—or at least they could more than ten years ago. That was across state lines, where one casts their votes in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, etc. This however was solved ten years ago with the ERIC program, which allowed states to compare their voter rolls to detect federal voter fraud.
So when a deeply red state like Louisiana declares their intent to dump ERIC while also championing stricter voter ID requirements, I think it appears clear to an objective observer that the primary concern isn't extra voters but rather who they're voting for.
And that feels deeply un-American to me.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1171159008/eric-investigation-voter-data-election-integrity https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1171159008/eric-investigation...
- Georgelemental 3y agoIn the Minnesota case, the felon voters did get away with it, for two years—long enough to potentially affect the results. The Minnesota Majority report on the felon votes was only released in 2010. I'm not alleging any fraud beyond the votes by felons, which we know happened because they were convicted in court.