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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (348467)	5/4/2022 7:54:20 PM
From: didjuneau	Respond to of 456208

I have a feeling it was the opposition that was checking IDs at our caucus. I'd be willing to bet that there's a database out there of who cares enough to vote in primaries and who doesn't. Then they can create votes out of thin air for people who don't care/don't vote, using their names. The people who are likely voters who would raise hell if they found out that someone had voted in their place are not likely to be used for "phantom" votes. But if their usual vote party preference is known, they may be candidates for vote swapping or cancelling done in the machines. Once it's separated from the envelope - anything can happen. I reread the instructions on the RCV pamphlet. It says "mark your ballot by filling in one oval per candidate in each column". So if you decided you had no second preference and voted for the same candidate in all choice boxes, they may throw your ballot or "adjudicate" it. I wonder what would happen if you only filled in 1st choice and no others? I suppose they could find a way to use that against you also. The whole thing is like one of those grade school multiple choice questions where you know the teacher is wrong. What can you do about it?