billroper | (Reply)

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I might well have misremembered the exact circumstances of the Florida visits to houses, since I didn't go look them up before posting. If I did, I apologize for the error.

Actually, I'm happy to check my partisanship on the subject of election fraud. As you observe in your first post, it's important that people trust the results of elections. If they don't, we're starting down the road to civil disorder in a big hurry.

I don't want fraud by Democrats, Republican, or Naderites. I don't want people being told to get an absentee ballot so that their employers or union leaders can make sure that they're voting for the right candidates. I don't want ghost voters who aren't required to show photo IDs. I don't want legitimate voters purged from the rolls. (It happened to me once when the County Clerk just lost me.) I don't want Republican poll watchers who are really Democrats or vice versa. And I don't want electronic voting machines that can't be accurately audited.

But every single one of these things has a constituency that is pushing for them because it's to their electoral advantage, usually giving excuses like we're "making it easier for people to exercise their right to vote" and "making sure every vote is counted".

I'm not sure how we can convince people that procedures that would help eliminate fraud aren't some evil campaign to deprive people of their right to vote. But it's certainly a challenge...