01-29-2018, 11:14 AM
There is little gain from voter fraud. Anyone who applies to vote must sign a document stating that one is what one claims to be on penalty of perjury for impersonating a voter.
Vote fraud is most likely from administrators of the vote -- as in 'losing' applications by the 'wrong side', tampering with equipment, falsifying tabulations, having inadequate access to voting in places likely to 'vote wrong', or hacking the electioneering of the other side.
Picture IDs should be free and easy to get, and not connected to demographic realities.
Concern about vote fraud is much like concern for welfare fraud. For example, Michigan charges a 10-cent deposit on containers of soft drinks and carbonated water that the Bridge Card will pay for. Buying such beverages and dumping them so that one can return the bottles or cans for a quick refund is illegal -- and at the welfare office such is made obvious.
Would I report someone who did that? Sure.
(If I had my way I would deny eligibility for food aid for sodas, or at least require that those who get them on food stamps pay the deposits when purchasing them, which could include using bottle returns as payments).
Vote fraud is most likely from administrators of the vote -- as in 'losing' applications by the 'wrong side', tampering with equipment, falsifying tabulations, having inadequate access to voting in places likely to 'vote wrong', or hacking the electioneering of the other side.
Picture IDs should be free and easy to get, and not connected to demographic realities.
Concern about vote fraud is much like concern for welfare fraud. For example, Michigan charges a 10-cent deposit on containers of soft drinks and carbonated water that the Bridge Card will pay for. Buying such beverages and dumping them so that one can return the bottles or cans for a quick refund is illegal -- and at the welfare office such is made obvious.
Would I report someone who did that? Sure.
(If I had my way I would deny eligibility for food aid for sodas, or at least require that those who get them on food stamps pay the deposits when purchasing them, which could include using bottle returns as payments).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.