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Posted on 08/12/2012 5:49:47 AM PDT by Libloather
New database of US voter fraud finds no evidence that photo ID laws are needed
First of a series of articles, Who Can Vote: a News21 investigation of voting rights in America
By Natasha Khan and Corbin Carson, News21
A new nationwide analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tough voter ID laws, is virtually non-existent.
In an exhaustive public records search, reporters from the investigative reporting projecdt News21 sent thousands of requests to elections officers in all 50 states, asking for every case of fraudulent activity including registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, vote buying, false election counts, campaign fraud, casting an ineligible vote, voting twice, voter impersonation fraud and intimidation.
Analysis of the resulting comprehensive News21 election fraud database turned up 10 cases of voter impersonation. With 146 million registered voters in the United States during that time, those 10 cases represent one out of about every 15 million prospective voters.
“Voter fraud at the polls is an insignificant aspect of American elections,” said elections expert David Schultz, professor of public policy at Hamline University School of Business in St. Paul, Minn.
(Excerpt) Read more at openchannel.nbcnews.com ...
Oh NBC, One case of vote fraud is too many.
I mean, if someone says something mean to one gay person, mind you if they didnt make it up, we are expected to pass “hate crime” bills in all 50 states, right?
How does a database find evidence?
“No dirt was incorporated into this omelette. Honest!”
Al Franken and Claire McCackle would agree...
“New database of US voter fraud finds no evidence that photo ID laws are needed”
New database of under 21 liquor drinking fraud finds no evidence that photo ID laws are needed.
That’s why we have Al Franken.
“asking for every case of fraudulent activity including registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, vote buying, false election counts, campaign fraud, casting an ineligible vote, voting twice, voter impersonation fraud and intimidation.”
And they received no response from Minnesota, where a close senate election most likely was determined by illegal votes from felons?
Coming from a university in Minnesota...someone seems to forget the last Senate election where Al Franken was elected by a handful of likely fraudulent votes. The 2000 presidential race was also decided by a handful of votes in Florida and could easily have been stolen by even a miniscule amount of fraudulent votes. Besides in Minnesota as well as most states you need a picture ID to do nearly anything from paying by check to getting welfare benefits so who wouldn’t have an ID other than those bent on voter fraud?
The data supporting this argument should prompt a like effort to eliminate the need for photo ID when flying on a commercial airline flight.
Many of these fine public servants are likely up to their eyeballs in voter fraud, especially in 'rat hellholes.
Of course! There is no voter fraud in honest Conservative/Republican districts that control elections. It is only from Democrat-controlled precincts and states where the government is controlled by Democrats.
This exhaustive search is the equivalent of polling criminals and asking them to document where they committed a crime. Redonkulous precept for a study by a “news organization.”
Notice it said all cases. yet they didn’t include those not allowed to vote such as felons who are being prosecuted in Minn even today going back to Frankens election. Over 200 thus far i believe.
Second it leaves out instances where fraud has occurred but the dems won’t prosecute such as in Wash state where all those ballots turned up late and gave Grigore her seat.
This is just nonsense. All they have is some tally of actual, detected cases of voter fraud under circumstances where little effort is being made to detect cases of voter fraud, and the tools needed to detect many types of voter fraud do not exist.
I really wish we could exile liberals to an island where they could live out their existence in the misery they would create for themselves.
This reminds me of when asked if welfare ‘benefits’ are given to illegals. The discussion goes like this:
Reporter: Do you give benefits to illegals?
Gov. Worker: No, we do not.
R: Do you check for legality
GW: No, we are not permitted to check
R: Then how do you know the recipients are legal?
GW: They are not permitted to collect benefits unless they’re legal.
There you have - proof that welfare benefits are not given to Illegals.
“I don't think there is a mature democracy that has as bad of an elections system as we do,” said Richard Hasen, a professor of political science and election law expert at the University of California, Irvine. “We have thousands of electoral jurisdictions, we have non-professionals running our elections, we have partisans running our elections, we have lack of uniformity.”
I suspect that this joker would like a "Dept. of Elections", another unionized bureaucracy to run our state elections.
“During the recent Washington, D.C. primary election, an investigator from the James O’Keefe’s Veritas Project walked into Attorney General’s polling place and asked for Holder’s ballot. Providing just the name and address, the election judge was prepared to hand it over — even after the investigator professed a desire to go back to his car for his ID”
these people are fools, dupes or malignant.....in which case We the People are being mades out as fools an dupes...
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