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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (33889)3/10/2009 12:26:02 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
"Rarer than a lighting strike" is itself a "so what idea".

The fact that convictions for voter fraud are rarer than people being killed by lighting is a worthless point. (In fact it might be evidence of a lack of effort to prosecute fraud.)

Again convictions aren't important, fraud is. If people get away with fraud you don't have any statistics, but that doesn't mean it isn't a problem. Also about a hundred Americans (and 10,000 or so people world wide) are killed by lighting each year. The risk and individual faces from lighting is relatively low, but the risk that a specific individual will commit voter fraud isn't the issue. The issue is the risk that fraud happens.
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