Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout

Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by pjc50 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:52PM (#11717309)

The UK increased postal voting, and found greatly increased fraud: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26520836

I'd be concerned that some of the increased turnout aren't real voters...

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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by tehwebguy on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @05:34PM (#11717653)

That article is just the opinion of Richard Mawrey QC.

Here is the Electoral Fraud Review report from the Electoral Commission in 2014. Mawrey seems to strongly disagree with the findings of the report.

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file...

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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by notahacker on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @05:58PM (#11717833)

The Electoral Fraud Review report concludes that banning postal voting (in specific areas or altogether) would be a "disproportionate" response to allegations of voter fraud.

It also quite explicitly states that limiting postal votes would reduce the risk of voter fraud (p34) and acknowledges some evidence of systematic voter fraud in some regions of the UK exists.

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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by debracleaver on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @06:25PM (#11718080)

it's hard to draw conclusions cross-country. right now i would say that we are very much in a position of denying actual citizens the right to vote, and we need to address that stat. postal mail is one way we can do that. making voting easy in general is the goal here.

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