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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (708109)

4/10/2013 8:52:27 AM

From: SilentZ

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CJ, you're getting desperate. Comparing voter fraud to dragons and unicorns?

It's pretty close to as rare. The Bush administration spent tens of millions of dollars over five years trying to find cases of voter fraud. Over the course of five years, there were probably 300-500 million votes cast in this country.

Excluding a few dozen people who were involved in vote-rigging schemes for races like local sheriff, they found about 30 cases of actual voter fraud, mostly by people who voted twice. Nothing to do with ACORN, or mass voter registration drives. Likely just people who took advantage of the fact that they were on multiple rolls because they'd moved and not informed their own state. 30 out of 300 million. That's one case in every million. One in a million!

The picture being painted is of hundreds of thousands of people being registered en masse and being bused to the polls to vote fraudulently, often over and over. That should be incredibly easy to prove, and the offenders so easy to catch. But we haven't found one case of anything like that. Not one.

This isn't trying to prove a negative. It's proving a positive. It's asking to show that there's any evidence at all for something before using techniques that, in a best case scenario, will accidentally keep hundreds of thousands of people from exercising their most important right as citizens of a democracy. But we're talking more than hundreds of thousands here, and it's no accident.

Five years and tens of millions of dollars (I think I'm being very conservative on this estimate), and you get one a million.

Give me something more. There's gotta be something. A few people independently writing Mickey Mouse on voter registration forms to make an extra ten dollars is not something. It won't generate one fraudulent vote.

Work with me here. I'm serious. I'm pretty sure that if this were happening, I could prove it with a few links. But I can't.

-Z

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