Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect...
by the_snooze on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:59PM
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Stuffing mail ballots makes zero sense if you're actually trying to tilt elections in your favor. It requires too much effort and conspiracy to get past the procedure you describe. Your crime-ing efforts are better off throwing away your opponents' mail ballots.
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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect...
by xadhominemx on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:40PM
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No, because it’s easy to check if your vote has been registered. If someone threw away a ton of ballots, people would notice.
Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect...
by BeFlatXIII on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @09:21PM
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They're not thrown away in the dumpster instead of fed to the counting machine. They're discarded as invalid over "signature doesn't match" and legal nit-picking. It's another case of regulatory rules being used to stop competition instead of improving market/election integrity.
Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect...
by mulmen on Thursday June 09, 2022 @02:54AM
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This has the same problem. I can use a webpage to verify my vote has been counted. If there’s something wrong I can see there’s a problem and what to do about it. If this was widespread it would be caught.
Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect...
by xadhominemx on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:47AM
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Again, many organizations track ballot rejections for exactly the reason you describe. It’s very easy to discover this sort of behavior.