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Nursing homes are a good place to look for voter fraud. Certain staff members will send off for absentee ballots for all the nursing home residents. The faculty will then fill out those absentee ballots and have a fellow coworker sign as witness then mail them all back in. Residents pass away frequently at these facilities. Though the residents have passed away they can still send off for absentee ballots for these passed away residents depending on the state’s efforts to update voter rolls through official death certificates.
Another form of voter fraud is street side voter registration drives. Some of these people will go through completed registration forms and toss out those that checked the opposing political party. Another method is to fill out forms using false identities and use those false identities for mail in ballots. Some homes have been used for in excess of 20 registrations.
Militant postal workers are another source of fraud. They can tell who the people are voting for on their route (sometimes by something as simple as yard signs and bumper stickers) and throw out their ballots before they ever reach the post office.
This form of voter fraud has happened in the past so I’m not sure how often it happens today. In the past it wasn’t uncommon for some members of the population to not be able to read or understand English. Because of this laws allowed for an “assistant” to enter the booth with the voter. Local officials used this to strong arm voters and enter the booth to vote in place of the intimidated voter.
Ways to combat these include only allowed to register to vote at the official city office with proof of residence and ID. Change laws so that voters must present some form of proof of identification to vote (DL, state ID, etc). Early vote in person instead of mail in ballots.
It's so interesting that the focus is on voter fraud, and not the rampant vote suppression that's been taking place in every election since the new millennium, if not earlier. Claims of voter fraud is a good smokescreen for systemic vote suppression. It's not voter fraud that's threatening democracy in the US.
It's so interesting that the focus is on voter fraud, and not the rampant vote suppression that's been taking place in every election since the new millennium, if not earlier. Claims of voter fraud is a good smokescreen for systemic vote suppression. It's not voter fraud that's threatening democracy in the US.
Can you give an example of voter suppression? Requiring a form of ID doesn’t count as voter suppression.
First link stated state budget cuts were the reason for the closures and reduced services and that most services could still be conducted online. Today most libraries have computers with internet access. Second link also stated the reason for the closures were budget reasons. The third case is somewhat similar to where I live. There is a shortage of people willing to work on elections. Regularly the person in charge is practically BEGGING people to sign up to work polling stations as many of their previous workers have either died are are no longer physically able to do the job anymore. Purging voter rolls isn’t voter suppression. It’s something that’s done on a regular schedule. If someone has not voted in a certain number of elections the. A letter is mailed to the address on record for verification the voter is still alive, living at the address given, and is still eligible to vote. If the person does not respond then that person is removed. My white coworker just found out yesterday he won’t be able to vote for this very reason.
First link stated state budget cuts were the reason for the closures and reduced services and that most services could still be conducted online. Today most libraries have computers with internet access. Second link also stated the reason for the closures were budget reasons. The third case is somewhat similar to where I live. There is a shortage of people willing to work on elections. Regularly the person in charge is practically BEGGING people to sign up to work polling stations as many of their previous workers have either died are are no longer physically able to do the job anymore. Purging voter rolls isn’t voter suppression. It’s something that’s done on a regular schedule. If someone has not voted in a certain number of elections the. A letter is mailed to the address on record for verification the voter is still alive, living at the address given, and is still eligible to vote. If the person does not respond then that person is removed. My white coworker just found out yesterday he won’t be able to vote for this very reason.
Alabama's "explanations" notwithstanding, the Department of Justice subsequently found numerous violations and compelled Alabama to amend their voter registration opportunities. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/state...act-violations
Alabama's "explanations" notwithstanding, the Department of Justice subsequently found numerous violations and compelled Alabama to amend their voter registration opportunities. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/state...act-violations
You say numerous. Your link confirms one example, that the state’s office of motor vehicles weren’t coordinating with voter registrations. Your link also stated that the violation was corrected.
You say numerous. Your link confirms one example, that the state’s office of motor vehicles weren’t coordinating with voter registrations. Your link also stated that the violation was corrected.
"Widespread noncompliance" = numerous incidents. Quoted from linked article: "The department’s investigation, conducted by the Civil Rights Division, found widespread noncompliance with the requirements of Section 5 of the NVRA [National Voter Registration Act of 1993] in the state of Alabama." The correction of the violation required intervention by the Civil Rights Division, without which the correction would not have been made.
Can you please list all the techniques available for voter fraud when dealing with mail-in ballots only.
Ballot harvesting for one. Even where there are rules against it they are hard to enforce. With ballot harvesting comes a whole host of other problems, such as intimidation of vulnerable people, bribery, often the lack of a secret ballot, and an odd tendency for votes that don't match the vote of the harvester to get lost on the way to the polling station.
As far as voting by the dead in particular is concerned, I will note that the only demographic that votes more consistently for the democrats than blacks do are the dead. Something happens when you die I suppose. Your perspective changes, making you much more likely to vote for a democrat.
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