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The statistical significance is the 97% success rate.
61 votes is not going to swing an election either way. You sound like the type of person that would spend a million dollars to find 10,000 dollars in fraud.
No system is 100% perfect, and if you knew anything about math or statistics you would know that 61 out of 5 million is statistically insignificant and doesn't mean anything.
People slip thru every system and that doesn't diminish the effectiveness or validity of those systems nor does it mean we should throw out those systems and start over.
IF you want 100% success in verifying ID for voting for example, all we have to do is hire the companies and employees that operate the security systems at various casinos around the world. I have no doubt they could achieve 100% success, but its going to cost a lot of money, and no politicians are willing to spend that kind of money.
In the end its not about encouraging people to vote, its about making it more difficult. Along with the jerrymandering these politicians are shameless. Eventually all these clowns are going to die off, and hopefully the younger people behind us will be smarter than they were. I hope I live long enough to witness the change.
Voter fraud is virtually nonexistent so why should it be everyone's concern? Voter fraud is just another boogieman made up by Republicans to try to push voter ID on everyone when they fully know that low income people, who tend to vote Democrat, will have to hardest time getting ID's.
Quite frankly, in the majority of cases it is not really that hard to get ID! I would think it would be very difficult to get by in our society without one. Don't banks require ID? How about programs to help the poor such as welfare and food stamps, etc...ID required? Purchase of alcohol? Purchase of a gun? Getting married?
If you opened that bank acct years ago before 9/11 there was no photo ID required. Photo IDs for voting is all about voter suppression. The poor, black, elderly, etc are being targeted by these stupid laws.
No, they’re not. Stop with the excuses! See all previous posts for why.
For all the people who say there are many poor black people who can’t get photo ID, wouldn’t those people be better off with an ID anyway? They could probably get better jobs, the ones that actually require documentation. How are so many people living without ID? I’ve never had a job that I didn’t have to provide my ID and actual social security card for them to copy.
As for the elderly who may not have a record of their births because they weren’t born in a hospital, I’m sure they could make provisions for that with other documentation. And they should. Someone who has lived here for 80 years or so probably has a record trail somewhere.
So much for that argument. This should be a wake up call to anyone.
that is a different scenario than what I wrote (see below). those people were not 'anyone off the street'. they obviously had at least the names of people who were registered to vote.
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Originally Posted by Fox Terrier
people make it sound like anyone off the street can walk into a voting area and vote. that is NOT the case.
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