Voter fraud does not provide the number of votes Republicans need. It takes tens of thousands of illegal voters not the one or two that Republicans scream about
They would rather rely on voter suppression, restricting voter eligibility, gerrymandering, restricting voting hours and the number of polling places
That is how you get real results
Correct.
Indeed, voter ‘fraud’ is so exceedingly rare as to be virtually non-existent, in no way ‘justifying’ placing an undue burden on the right to vote, as most Republicans seek to do with un-Constitutional ‘voter ID’ laws.
The remedie is worse than the disease
Blocking thousands from voting to possibly stop the handful of fraudulent votes does not make sense
Yeah, easy for you to say when it's your side doing it.
If Republicans were staging "Dawn of the Dead Voters" in the election, and Trump won because of it... you'd be the FIRST on here talking about Voter ID and cameras.
do you have some proof that democrats and only democrats are voting in dead people's spots or is this just another of the right wing's fantasy lying land that they live in?
Of course I do not believe that "only" the Democrats are doing this.
I'm sure that somewhere there are examples of Republicans voting fraudulently.
However, as far as I can tell, only the Republicans have made any attempt to reduce voter fraud, and nearly every time it is opposed, it's a Democrat.
I have yet to see one example anywhere, where a Democrat is saying "let's put cameras in the voting polls", and Republicans are saying "Voter fraud is a myth! No need to stop fraud".
It certainly has not happened on this forum, and I certainly haven't seen it in the news.
Does that mean that "only" Democrats have any examples of fraud? Of course not. But we do have examples of it, and only one side of the ideology spectrum seems to care, and the other side seems to defend it.
Now of the latest examples of clear voter fraud, where people were convicted, the cases I know about, were all Democrats.
Alabama, Daniel W. Reynolds was convicted and was given the massive stiff penalty of 2 years probation, for falsifying absentee ballots for Amos Newsome, who won the election by only 14 votes.
Derek Castonguay, of New Hampshire, was caught voting in three other towns, not including the town where he lived. Who knows how many others did the same.
In Minnesota, which has had hundreds of voter fraud convictions leading up to the 2008 election. Which if you remember led to Al Franken replacing the incumbent Republican, which gave the Democrats a filibuster-proof majority and led to the passage of the Obama Care.
Obviously, like trying to calculate the black market, we have no idea exactly how many votes are fraudulent. What we do know, is that Coleman, the Republican candidate, went from a certified ballot count of 700 votes ahead, to just under 230 votes ahead. That would be just 3 fraudulent votes per county, to swing the election.
Now, honestly, I don't know of any election off hand, where there was clear documented voter fraud taking place, and the Republican pulled a massive upset.
Do you? I'll consider it.