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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: combjelly who wrote (8325)1/27/2017 3:16:51 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 353872
 
>> The problem I have is with the barriers to get them. They are significant and the difficulties are weighted against the poor. Which seems to be by design.

It has to be by design. You have to be able to prove you should be voting. If it is a PITA that's okay.

But you know enough about Database Systems to realize there must be a unique Primary Key. Period. There is no work-around for that. Systems don't work without them. It is how you know who you're dealing with. The person with the card is that person. Once that card has been used to vote it cannot be used again. It SHOULD be a little bit of a pain to get.

>> But that doesn't mean it is impossible. Which seems to be the case.

It isn't impossible. But no one I've ever heard of has done a study that would turn it up. You have to allocate resources to the study. But it can be done. It just hasn't.

It is blatantly obvious that SOME fraud occurs. We just don't know how much. But there are places where a person can walk in a polling place without ID of any kind and cast a vote, with the assurance someone will check it later. Yet, somehow, have the vote totaled within hours. That is absurd.

Countries all over the world require voter ids. We are the world's technology leader, yet we cannot handle a simple database application like this? We have computing systems that can process 100 Million transactions in a second? And we can't do this? Nonsense. We count every person in every household in the country every ten years? And we can't figure out who is allowed to vote?

And I guarantee you when it is time to get Medicare, Medicaid, and Food Stamps benefits they can figure out how to do THAT.

Inconvenient? I don't think that's a real reason.
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