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Originally Posted by greywar
LOL. Guy registers dead folks because it makes him money. None of them were going to vote. Thats not voter fraud, thats registration fraud.
Man you folks just dont stop with this nonsense do you?
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Sounds reasonable to me.
This young man was to be paid based on the number of newly registered Democrat voters he could supply. As the article notes, he made up some 18 names (or, real names and fake birthdates).
However, there was little to no danger of said dead people actually 'voting'
It is odd that some people insist that 'voter registration' = 'voter fraud'. Yet, they are two separate animals.
This young man could have submitted 2.8 million fake voter registrations, which would have had no impact on the actual voting. Sure, election officials may have wondered why so many registered voters did not, in fact, vote, and weep over the poor voter turnout.
Indeed, recall that this is how the election authorities come up with the 'percentage of registered voters whom actually voted'. If a precinct has 1,000 registered voters, but come election 400 actually vote, then they will claim that 40 percent of registered voters voted.
Why? we must also recall this: many 'live' people register, or are registered, to vote, yet do not vote. I have missed local elections although registered to vote in said elections.
Election rolls also have number of 'dead' voters registered. When my father died in 2009, he was still registered to vote. If I were to drop dead today, I would still be registered to vote through December 2018 (the expiration date of my current voter registration card). My wife would not think (as we did not with our father) to call the election office to take my name off the voter registrar.
Accordingly, I am not concerned that this young man's action influenced the election in any way, shape or form.
I do not really like the practice of hiring people to get people registered to vote, and basing their pay based on the number of names submitted. It does invite fraud, as in this case, and also creates a false impression on what percentage of registered voters actually voted.
Just for fun, here is a story about Republicans engaging in voter registration fraud in Florida:
Voter Registration Fraud From GOP-Backed Firm Spreads - ABC News
This was, again, a case where an outfit was paid to obtain newly registered Republican voters.
I also saw a story about a man in New Mexico that thought it would be fun to register his dog as a Democratic voter. He succeeded.
The dog failed to vote.
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