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I don't know. I have wondered about it, tho. I have wondered about it in re: to all the candidates and ACORN registration of voters. I don't think there is any way to ever determine if there were damage done to her campaign. But yes, I have wondered about it. The allegations that voter irregularities have gone on under the auspices of ACORN are not new w/ this election - suits have been filed for the prior two elections - and maybe prior to that. I just know I have seen that suits were filed in 2000 and 2004, as well as suits being filed in this election.
Pretty confident, since voter registration is not voting.
Also, we would have heard about it by now. Those are professional politicians, they know.
How would they know? Let's examine what fraudulent voter registration means.
Let's say an ACORN worker approaches me and says - fill this out. I decide to make up a name and use an existing address . . . my Aunt's address, who lives in a different precinct than I live in. The registration goes thru. On election day, I go to my precinct and vote using my correct name and address. I go to my Aunt's precinct, give them my fictitious name and her address . . . and since they require NO PHOTO ID, and my fictitious name is on the books, I vote again!
Okay . . . even if they eventually figure out that this is a fictitious name at a real address . . . and that the ficitious person voted . . . what are they gonna do about it? They can't discount my vote . . . cause how do they know who I voted for?
And who are they going to prosecute for voter fraud? I used a fictitious name.
I love all this concern about ACORN from the wingnuts. Its quite comical, actually, all this outrage over non existent voter fraud.
If you REALLY want voter fraud, look at the past 2 elections. The states to look for are Florida (where Jeb Bush and Kathleen Harris literally threw the election to the idiot younger brother of Jeb) and Kenneth Blackwell and the GOP in Ohio in 2004.
Thats REAL voter fraud, not the imagined kind used by right wing propagandists in regards to ACORN.
How would they know? Let's examine what fraudulent voter registration means.
Let's say an ACORN worker approaches me and says - fill this out. I decide to make up a name and use an existing address . . . my Aunt's address, who lives in a different precinct than I live in. The registration goes thru. On election day, I go to my precinct and vote using my correct name and address. I go to my Aunt's precinct, give them my fictitious name and her address . . . and since they require NO PHOTO ID, and my fictitious name is on the books, I vote again!
Okay . . . even if they eventually figure out that this is a fictitious name at a real address . . . and that the ficitious person voted . . . what are they gonna do about it? They can't discount my vote . . . cause how do they know who I voted for?
And who are they going to prosecute for voter fraud? I used a fictitious name.
If your little scenario were to play out, how many people would then be able to pull this off?
Three? Five? Ten?
Much easier for the Secretary of State to purge the voter rolls, like happened to thousands in Florida in 2000.
If you supported Hillary Clinton, how confident are you that there were no irregularities in the Democrat primary registration and voting?
America isn't it interesting that most of the Republican election thrust is based on dividing us as a people? Is this what you believe we need to lead us in these troubling times. People focused on dividing an playing one American against the other. The choice is yours the United States of America or the Divided States of America. Remember it was just the other day that Sarah Palin designated Americans based on geography. Those that live in areas that are Pro American and then the others. Wow oh wow and they are so open about their desire to divide and conquer.
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