Vote fraud ?

[RickN]

It's quite the bogeyman, that untraceable, invisible voter fraud.

Must be why several people have gone to jail in the last few years, because with voter IDs they are starting to be able to prove it.

 

[n2sooners]

It's quite the bogeyman, that untraceable, invisible voter fraud.

That indeed is the problem. Without voter ID and no ID on the ballots (for obvious reasons) it is easy to commit fraud and hard to prove it.

 

[vvvvvvv]

Voter fraud itself is statistically zero, and among actual voter fraud cases, voter impersonation (which is what Voter ID laws supposedly combat) are a very small portion.

http://www.aclupa.org/downloads/Minnite.pdf

 

[LightningCrash]

Must be why several people have gone to jail in the last few years, because with voter IDs they are starting to be able to prove it.

Several people have gone to jail for the pseudophed law... that means we have a pseudophed abuse problem. It's huge, just think of all the people they didn't catch in the act!

 

[DFarcher]

Justin, some people like cjjtulsa cant handle, and are afraid to hear the truth.

It's not their fault.

Forgive them, and move on. Keep on posting the truth Justin.

Dang right its on the internet so it has to be true!!!!

 

[RickN]

Voter fraud itself is statistically zero, and among actual voter fraud cases, voter impersonation (which is what Voter ID laws supposedly combat) are a very small portion.

http://www.aclupa.org/downloads/Minnite.pdf

Says a report written by an Obama crony for an organization that is part of ACORN and worked Obama. Nothing to see here, move along.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/projects/acornproject-vote/

 

[Hobbes]

Obama stole billions of votes. That's the only way he could beat a winner like Mitworth Romney.

The GOP doesn't need the votes of minorities, all they need to do is continue to appeal to the white voters and the moral majority and stop the vote fraud and all will be well.

 

[vvvvvvv]

http://votingrights.news21.com/interactive/election-fraud-database/

2068 cases since 2000. 0.000555772% of votes cast were alleged to be fraudulent.

Of those, 10 were voter impersonation, 150 double votes, 56 non-citizens - all cases that are supposed to be prevented with voter ID. 0.0000580496916% of total, 10.444874274% of cases.

Of those, 10 were convicted, and 71 plead guilty. 0.0000217686344% of total. 37.5% of cases.

 

[RickN]

http://votingrights.news21.com/interactive/election-fraud-database/

2068 cases since 2000. 0.000555772% of votes cast were alleged to be fraudulent.

Of those, 10 were voter impersonation, 150 double votes, 56 non-citizens - all cases that are supposed to be prevented with voter ID. 0.0000580496916% of total, 10.444874274% of cases.

Of those, 10 were convicted, and 71 plead guilty. 0.0000217686344% of total. 37.5% of cases.

From your link,

Is this database complete?

No. Despite the huge News21 public-records request effort, the team received no useful responses from several states - for instance, the lone cases in the database from Massachusetts, Oklahoma , South Carolina and South Dakota all came from the RNLA survey. Even in states where some local jurisdictions responded, others didn’t. In addition, it is possible that some jurisdictions which did respond failed to include some cases. Another problem is that some responses News21 received were missing important details about each case - from whether the person was convicted or charged to the circumstances of the alleged fraud to the names of those involved. Still, with those caveats, News21 is confident this database is substantially complete and is the largest such collection of election fraud cases gathered by anyone in the United States.

Again, without photo voter IDs it is a very hard thing to prove voter fraud. On the other hand several independent studies have proven that having a voter ID law does not affect minority voter turnout.

The Democratic Party has criticized voter identification laws, voicing concerns that the laws could lead to disenfranchisement of poor, minority or elderly voters.[25] In 2011, the civil rights group The Advancement Project was critical of the laws, saying they disproportionately impact blacks and Latinos.[27] According to another report commissioned by the Election Assistance Commission, one effect of voter identification laws is lower turnout, especially among members of minorities. However, in 2012, an investigation by Reuters found that voter ID laws in Georgia and Indiana had not led to lower turnout of minorities and concluded that Democratic concerns about this "are probably overstated". The news agency reported that in Georgia there was an increase of four percent in turnout for African American voters in 2008, compared to 2004, which was prior to the voter ID law. In the 2010 Georgia midterm elections, turnout for African Americans was seven percent higher than the midterms in 2006, before the voter ID law was introduced. In Indiana, while no information is collected on race of voters, Reuters found that voter turnout increased in 2008 for two counties with non-white populations higher than 40 percent. Also, in the Indiana midterm elections of 2006 and 2010, turnout increased compared to the 2002 election before the voter ID law was introduced.[28] In October 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported that studies of the impact of voter ID laws on turnout have had inconclusive results, particularly since most of the laws were introduced prior to the 2008 election, which had high levels of voter turnout. Additionally, studies may be influenced by other factors that impact individuals' likelihood of voting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_ID_laws_in_the_United_States