Well I am voting by absentee ballot so if I die before the election I can legally vote dead
Good point!
I wondered the same thing for the census when I was filling it out in mid-March...How many people will be living at your house on April 1st?
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Well I am voting by absentee ballot so if I die before the election I can legally vote dead
I've worked many elections, and the only time we ever had a problem with absentee ballots it was Republicans. For a stupid state legislature seat, no less. It was 1994 in Northeast Philly, his name was....damn, I can't remember. He ended up having to give up his seat to the Dem after the fraud was uncovered, the Dem who eventually got the seat was named Stinson. Marks! Bruce Marks. That was the guy. Real class act. A lot of the restrictions and changes in PA absentee ballot laws happened as a result of that election. The Philadelphia Inquirer followed the story for weeks with very good in-depth coverage. What an embarrassment, and an unnecessary expense for both the City and the State too.
For all the allegations of absentee ballot fraud though, it would be nice to see some proof. And with absentees there's always hard evidence and a paper trail to nail the suckers.
That was key.... a journalist actually did their job! The real question to me is.... would said journalist have done the same for a Republican candidate? Doubtful
Had they've actually done their job and looked into Obama better, he would've never been able to run for pres in the 1st place. Too many questionable relationships in his past IMHO.
It's troubling, though, that our nation's highest law enforcement agency states that it's not interested in enforcing the law. They've made it quite clear they're more loyal to the Democratic Party than to justice.I hear that a lot, daveman.
The problem is, look at the little book you sign next time you vote. It should have a copy of your signature from your voter registration application next to your name and signature line. If the registration itself is fraudulent 99% of the time that's the State's screwup and nothing can be done at the local level. But if the poll workers are doing their jobs, they check to make sure the signature matches before waving you on. If it doesn't, the clerk taking your signature is to notify an inspector and/or the election judge and one of them is to challenge you. Then you get a provisional ballot - which is investigated before it counts. So unless you're both a damn good forger and lucky enough to be at a polling place where they don't know the locals, you can't vote a second time using your Dead Aunt Sally's or your Uncle Bob Who Moved To Miami's registration whether it's been purged or not. Purging voter rolls of the deceased is a good idea, not everyone notifies them when they move. But purges if done improperly are also a tool for voter suppression, so it's a double-edged sword.
So again, it comes down to the poll workers. Or absentee ballots, which also have safeguards the poll workers and/or County officials are supposed to check before counting them.