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Re: Canadian man living in Broward pleads guilty to voting illegally in ‘08 president
Acorn was being charged with registration fraud; not voter fraud. Sorry, but this silliness continues. There are almost zero cases of real voter fraud, and the impact of all voter fraud collectively would not change to outcome of single election.
Let's look at this practically. Is there anyone here that actually believes that you can falsely register enough people AND get those people to vote illegally (at the risk of being charged with voter fraud carrying a penalty of one to five years in prison). Why would anyone risk serious prison time to give but one more vote to someone. There is almost zero probability that one, ten, 100, 1000 votes would affect the outcome of an election. What idiot, after reviewing that risk/reward equation behind such a proposition even consider participating. Moreover, to change an outcome, you would need lots of participants making the conspiracy exponentially harder to pull off.
This just defies the test of reasonableness.. There is no problem. Its just voter suppression. Anyone that thinks otherwise is terribly misinformed, intellectually lazy or disingenuous (although, you would not actually "think otherwise" if you were disingenuous)
If people have all this energy and want to solve problems that actually exist, matter and lack sufficient attention, try global warming.
You mean like ACORN being sued for voter registration fraud in at least 11 states?
More Acorn Voter Fraud Comes to Light - WSJ.com
Acorn was being charged with registration fraud; not voter fraud. Sorry, but this silliness continues. There are almost zero cases of real voter fraud, and the impact of all voter fraud collectively would not change to outcome of single election.
Let's look at this practically. Is there anyone here that actually believes that you can falsely register enough people AND get those people to vote illegally (at the risk of being charged with voter fraud carrying a penalty of one to five years in prison). Why would anyone risk serious prison time to give but one more vote to someone. There is almost zero probability that one, ten, 100, 1000 votes would affect the outcome of an election. What idiot, after reviewing that risk/reward equation behind such a proposition even consider participating. Moreover, to change an outcome, you would need lots of participants making the conspiracy exponentially harder to pull off.
This just defies the test of reasonableness.. There is no problem. Its just voter suppression. Anyone that thinks otherwise is terribly misinformed, intellectually lazy or disingenuous (although, you would not actually "think otherwise" if you were disingenuous)
If people have all this energy and want to solve problems that actually exist, matter and lack sufficient attention, try global warming.
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