Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization

Re:Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visu... by fastball on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:11AM (#25031889)

The problem with fraud is that it's a "victimless" crime, so there could be a lot of fraud going undetected that we just don't know to look for.

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Re:Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visu... by Schiendelman on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:25AM (#25034516)

There really couldn’t be, no. The mechanisms by which people think there could are easily falsified.

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Re:Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visu... by fastball on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:09AM (#25034936)

Are you saying voter fraud can't be a victimless crime? What "couldn't be"?

How do you falsify me voting for my grandmother with dementia? My grandma will never know, and neither will anyone else.

Look, I am more into data-driven policy than the vast majority of people. But the data saying you don't need to make a change is not the same as the data saying you shouldn't make a change.

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Re:Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visu... by amanaplanacanal on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:52AM (#25036725)

> How do you falsify me voting for my grandmother with dementia? My grandma will never know, and neither will anyone else.

Yes, you could absolutely do that. But you can't swing an election that way.

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Re:Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visu... by Schiendelman on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:06PM (#25051114)

It’s harder than you think. Signature verification is real and works.

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Re:Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visu... by fastball on Monday November 09, 2020 @12:40PM (#25037286)

I didn’t say you could.

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Re:Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visu... by Schiendelman on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:05PM (#25051097)

You must be very good at forging your grandmother’s signature. Like I said, easily falsifiable.

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