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Re:The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous C... by Spooky23 on Friday July 26, 2019 @10:47PM (#20540095)
Where voter fraud happens it isn’t random people deciding to vote 3 times. Why would anyone bother?

Actual vote fraud is about political machinery. Now in the US the real election shenanigans are much cheaper and more effective... the big pools of black money and gerrymandering are the tools of modern political machines.

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Re:The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous C... by pvg on Saturday July 27, 2019 @02:06AM (#20540648)
That's not called 'voter fraud' though - 'voter fraud' is a more narrowly specific term than 'election fraud' and 'election shenanigans'.
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Re:The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous C... by Spooky23 on Saturday July 27, 2019 @03:00PM (#20543533)
“Voter fraud” in that context that is at best a boogeyman and at worse code for “poor and brown people voting”.
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Re:The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous C... by pvg on Saturday July 27, 2019 @03:28PM (#20543672)
This is your bit:

"Actual vote fraud is about political machinery".

That's not 'vote[r] fraud'. The meaning of the term is independent of whether this type of fraud is common or not, how the threat of it is misused politically, etc.

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