31 out of 1,000,000,000 ballots cast. That's how many credible incidents of voter fraud were found in this recent investigation that covers the years 2000 to 2014. Mr. Levitt welcomes anyone to check his work.
So, that's the end of the quaint (lie) notion that there is rampant voter fraud in this country and we must have photo ID YESTERDAY!!! (unless we are talking about absentee voter fraud in which case Sgt. Schultz from Hogan's Heroes suddenly makes a cameo appearance). Levitt notes the following.
ID laws are not aimed at the fraud you’ll actually hear about. Most current ID laws (Wisconsin is a rare exception) aren’t designed to stop fraud with absentee ballots (indeed, laws requiring ID at the polls push more people into the absentee system, where there are plenty of real dangers). Or vote buying. Or coercion. Or fake registration forms. Or voting from the wrong address. Or ballot box stuffing by officials in on the scam. In the 243-page document that Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel filed on Monday with evidence of allegedly illegal votes in the Mississippi Republican primary, there were no allegations of the kind of fraud that ID can stop.
Uh Huh:)
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Republicans across the country have admitted that the voter ID restrictions and other changes were instituted to suppress Democratic votes:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/28/republicans-admit-voter-id-laws-are-aimed-at-democratic-voters.html
Texas even bragged about it after they were charged with trying to suppress minorities; No, they insisted, we're just trying to stop Democrats from voting, so it's okay!
http://www.nationalmemo.com/6-other-times-republicans-admitted-voting-restrictions-are-just-about-disenfranchising-democrats/
But they've done almost nothing to make it hard for real voter fraud, which is committed when people register and vote in more than one jurisdiction where they own property (obviously committed by the wealthy and mostly white, like Ann Coulter for example: http://www.salon.com/2014/07/15/ann_coulters_voter_fraud_secret_why_she_urged_republican_not_to_push_issue/).
However, the real potential for massive voting fraud is with computerized voting systems, like the one in Mississippi. There is no paper ballot, and therefore no possibility for a recount. The only thing safeguarding the election is the integrity of the private company that won the contract for an expensive state-wide computer system. And companies who win contracts by wining and dining government officials always have the highest moral standards, right?
credible incidents of voter fraud were found in this recent investigation
There is no paper ballot, and therefore no possibility for a recount.
Hmmmmmm. One of you two HAS to be wrong.....
Markadelphia and Nikto are forgetting about something happening right in their own backyard, probably because it doesn't fit their preferred narrative.
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/265313621.html
Phyllis Kahn is a democrat, and apparently vote fraud is ok to look into if a democrat's ox is going to be gored, but markadelphia and nikto didn't feel like talking about this.
Eric Holder Was Just Slapped Down By Federal Court Over Voter ID
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