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Monday, January 30, 2017

Voter Fraud

Click here for the most comprehensive article I've seen on voter fraud, by Sher Watts Spooner at Daily Kos, entitled "Sure, there's voter fraud. By Republicans." Spooner cites eight cases where people cast fraudulent ballots -- all Republicans, who presumably voted Republican -- in previous presidential and state elections from 2012 on. She says there were four cases prosecuted in the 2016 presidential election, and three of them were Republicans.

Of course there are irregularities in voter rolls: Steve Bannon, Tiffany Trump, Steve Mnuchin, Jared Kushner, and Sean Spicer are each registered in two different states. There's nothing wrong with that, and it happens all the time when people move from one state to another - but it isn't voter fraud unless the person votes, or tries to vote, in both locations. Same thing with people on the voter rolls who die; it sometimes takes a long time to get their names off. But there's no fraud unless someone tries to vote in the dead person's name.

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