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In-person voting fraud is rare, doesn't affect elections
Associated Press ^ | Aug. 20, 2016 2:50 AM EDT | Hope Yen

Posted on 08/20/2016 2:25:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Donald Trump’s newest campaign ad begins with a warning: “In Hillary Clinton’s America, the system stays rigged against Americans.”

The commercial, which aired Friday as part of his $5 million swing state ad buy, hearkens back to a claim Trump has been hammering for weeks — that the general election is rigged against him. The questionable claim looks to mobilize Republicans, with the all-important start of early voting in some states just weeks away. […]

Is voting fraud a problem? Not the type that Trump is referring to.

While fraud can occur, the number of cases is very small and the type that voter IDs are designed to prevent — voter impersonation at the ballot box — is virtually non-existent. …

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electionfraud; hillary; trump; voterfraud
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Tell us another one, Hope-chan. By the AP doing this, the fraud problem now looks worse than Trump surmises.
1 posted on 08/20/2016 2:25:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Wonder how much she was bribed to write this...


2 posted on 08/20/2016 2:26:58 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ ~~~~ Appeasing evil is cowardice.)
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Just noticed this at the bottom of the article:
AP Director of Election Tabulations and Research Don Rehill contributed to this report.
They actually have a director of election propaganda. The unfree press never ceases to congratulate itself.
3 posted on 08/20/2016 2:36:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
GOOD CATCH

From their website;

http://www.eac.gov/assets/1/Documents/Don%20Rehill%20bio.pdf

Don Rehill is Director of Election Tabulations and Research for The Associated Press. He oversees all of AP’s election tabulation procedures, from creating specifications for vote entry screens and programs that check incoming vote reports for accuracy, to helping configure AP call centers, prioritizing election night sources, establishing best practices for election night field stringers, and training teams of quality control analysts.

4 posted on 08/20/2016 2:43:59 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it pisses people off.)
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To: knarf

Even worse, a dot-gov website admitting that the AP is an arm of the government, via this very process.


5 posted on 08/20/2016 2:47:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Why do you torture yourself looking at AP :)

I would go insane after 20 minutes.

But it’s good to know what our enemies are up to.

You have a stronger stomach than me!


6 posted on 08/20/2016 2:49:18 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Olog-hai

....tell that to citizens in some counties in Ohio...


7 posted on 08/20/2016 2:50:36 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Force Recon Dad)
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It matters, the same way locks on doors, combos on bank vaults, firewalls etc... matter. In a word: Safeguards.

I get it. Those with ulterior motives claim they don’t but will circumvent any safeguard or leverage any loophole given half a chance. It’s in their nature to do so.


8 posted on 08/20/2016 2:58:41 AM PDT by Clutch Martin
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To: Olog-hai

According to Hope vote fraud is rare. So all elections in Chicago are relatively clean and honest? Yeah, whatever Hope.


9 posted on 08/20/2016 3:01:32 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Olog-hai
Really?

Vote fraud in the 1960 election eventually lead to the "Great Society" fiasco and the Vietnam War.

In 1982 in Chicago in the governor's race, the fraud didn't work, and "Sixty-five individuals were indicted for federal election crimes, and all but two (one found incompetent to stand trial and another who died) were convicted."

In 2008 vote fraud in the Minnesota senate election provided the last vote necessary for Obamacare. (The number of convicted felons who illegally voted was larger than Frankin's winning margin.)

10 posted on 08/20/2016 3:10:45 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Olog-hai

This is complete nonsense. If vote fraud didn’t work, the Democrats wouldn’t do it.


11 posted on 08/20/2016 3:11:49 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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We have Don Rehill, Minister of Election Propaganda for AP, on the case, deeming that all “rare” and “inconsequential”. Down the memory hole with it.


12 posted on 08/20/2016 3:15:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Someone told me this week that George Soros owns the company that makes the electronic voting machines. Is this true?


13 posted on 08/20/2016 3:23:21 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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Only the stupid ones get caught. In Philly, they get voter turnout in some precincts of over 100 percent. The math puts the lie to these claims.


14 posted on 08/20/2016 3:39:28 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Why GOP has not challenged voter fraud in 30 years and wont challenge until the judge dies:

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2012/11/15/why-the-gop-will-not-do-anything-about-vote-fraud/

Last two election cycles proved the formula: go to inner cities in swing states, take 110% of the vote and take the swing state. GOP cant challenge. Third Times The Charm.

The top dogs know this but the public is clueless. Its all about getting money while pretending to hold elections. Even talking heads on the radio know this. Its all about raising false hopes, taking your cash and wringing hands while the nation dies.

15 posted on 08/20/2016 3:45:04 AM PDT by x_plus_one (There are two kinds of people in Socialist countries- billionaires and slaves.)
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To: Olog-hai

as outed in the email leaks... the currently favored tactic for vote manipulation is to have dem only voting areas set up and swap those ballot boxes, which are valid votes, with ballot boxes from a weak precinct.. then they just ‘disappear’ the ballot box from the target precinct.

this is how they’ve been able to get 100% votes for hillary or 0bama in a district.

it also explains how they can get 140% voter turn out in some precincts.


16 posted on 08/20/2016 4:01:24 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Olog-hai

Utter and egregious BS from the AP.


17 posted on 08/20/2016 4:02:43 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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“WILL RULINGS INVALIDATING VOTER ID INCREASE THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE?

Not necessarily. More likely, it will prevent a net loss of would-be Democratic voters — the black Americans, young people and the poor, whom recent rulings said would be less able to vote if newly passed state voter ID laws remained.”

More bull , without any proof . Why is it harder for Blacks, young people and poor to vote? You are telling me they do not use and are not required to have an ID in their daily lives the 363 or 364 other days of the year? Oh forget it.


18 posted on 08/20/2016 4:04:01 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar -- Yes, I know, she now supports HRC :()
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To: Olog-hai

AP needs to visit some Philadelphia precincts on Election Day when the buses are running and the poll places have to petition the courts to stay open late because the buses are running behind. It’s all right there if you care to look.


19 posted on 08/20/2016 4:05:10 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Olog-hai

Sure. Of course he is nearly correct. In comparison to the 110% turnout and ballots in the parking lot, he is correct. The in person fraud compared to the usual Rat shenanigans is small. Yet we all remember the Wisconsin kid who bragged of voting 25 times.


20 posted on 08/20/2016 4:11:27 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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