Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You)

Re:Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You) by specialist on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:55AM (#18392081)

The noise machine also conflates voter registration errors with election fraud.

For example, radical right wing pundit Ann Coulter was registered to vote in two places at the same time. (I don't recall if she also cast both ballots. Unlikely.) That is an error, not a fraud.

Such errors are inevitable in our state-based voter registration database administration. Worsened because only registered people are tracked. Versus listing all people and having flags for their eligibility.

The fix is nation wide universal automatic voter registration. Just like every other mature democracy.

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Re:Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You) by chrisco255 on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @04:44AM (#18398096)

I disagree on the nation-wide voter registration. Besides being probably unconstitutional, it has an effect of centralizing the power of the vote into the Federal government. It would be very difficult to pull off fraud in all 50 states, but it would be at least 50 times less difficult to do it in one centralized bureaucracy.

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