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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (8357)	1/27/2017 6:30:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 356468

But we do know that at least one person working for DNC claimed -- in an interview -- that "busloads" of people could easily be moved about to vote multiple times in an election. I have no idea if that is done or not, but I know some campaigns have enough cash to take advantage of the technique if it is. Really? If you wanted to commit fraud, how would you do it? Motive, we know. What about plausible means and opportunity? To vote you have to go to the polls and have your name checked off the voter registration list. You might know that your neighbor, Joe, will be out of town on election day and your Uncle Fred died a few weeks ago. You might impersonate them at the polls and get three votes instead of one. If you want to stand in line at three polling places, that is. Of course, if you got caught, the consequences are serious. Joe might have already voted absentee so, when you showed up, you'd be caught red-handed. Maybe if it were a small election where a few votes might matter, maybe your sister, Mary, is running for city council. But to influence a state or national election? You'd have to be nuts. You could have a bigger impact if you got a list of everyone who had died in the past few weeks and impersonated them. Lotsa work. As for bus loads, I suppose you could pay people to participate but, when the bus pulls up at the polling station, how could you get them in the voting booths? Whom would they impersonate? You'd have to have those managing the polling place in cahoots. Which is why I suggested monitoring suspicious places, if needed. Or filming for the arrival of buses. Or checking bus rentals for that date. Do you have any other ideas? Can you tell me how "bus loads" could pass the laugh test? It seems to me that the prime claimant for voter fraud, Trump, wouldn't be flapping about dead people and dual registrants, which are vulnerabilities, not examples of fraud, if he had anything more substantive. When someone's best argument for his claim is risible, you have to strongly suspect that there is nothing stronger there.