“Decades of study have found virtually no use of false identification in U.S. elections or voting by non-citizens”
How could they possibly know that, or study it?
Its very simple. Grandma dies, the daughter still votes for her. The room-mate moved to a new state...somebody still votes for him locally.
Its indetectable. If you know where a dead/moved away friend or relative lived, you can go vote for him. No study can discern whether or not that has happened.
Its indetectable. If you know where a dead/moved away friend or relative lived, you can go vote for him. No study can discern whether or not that has happened.
With the advent of computers and technology it would take some effort but programs could be set up to cross reference items such as death certificates, felony convictions, driver license changes, marriage/divorces, etc. against voter roles. This should be an ongoing process today where the above type info is sent directly to the voter registrar for checking.
The other day three applications for absentee ballots arrived in the mail. One for my husband, one for me, and one for the woman we bought this condo from two years ago. All we know about her wherebouts are that she lives in an assisted care faciltiy. We marked hers “Moved” and returned it to the post office. Two days later it arrived in our mail again, and again we returned it to the Post office. The Post Office said WE would have to file a change of address request for a woman we cannot find and have never met.
But one of us could have requested an absentee ballot in her name and used it, and no one except us would have been the wiser.
It can be discerned, if somebody wants to spend a little money.
(1) Take a voting district with suspiciously-high turnout.
(2) Take a random sample of voters, using a high sampling for the absentee ballots.
(3) For each voter, use skip-trace and credit-check databases to see if there is evidence that the person is there (credit cards at that address, utility payments in that person's name).
(4) For voters that you don't see evidence of somebody by that name actually living there, have a PI pay a personal visit.
(5) Also check for people who show multiple addresses that signify multiple residences (college students, snowbirds, owners of vacation homes) and see if there are multiple voter registrations for the same person.
Exactly. My niece went to collget out of state. In 2008 she voted absentee in her home state. The in November, she accompanied some college friends to vote in her college state and claims she could have voted again with just her student I.D.
Since in most places no identification is required to vote, how would they know?
In the age of computers, one cannot track who is who??!!! BS. Forget to pay alimony? BAM Forget to pay back taxes? BAM Newt is right when he llustrates how FEDEX tracks several million MOVING packages a day and the gov cannot track millions of static people. In the 1980’s INS would show up at a factory with computer print outs and nail illegal immigrant workers so well that the factory owners had to call their Congressman to put a stop to the practice. Today with wireless access and computer data, we cannot catch illegals working and voting???!!!!
Its very simple. Grandma dies, the daughter still votes for her. The room-mate moved to a new state...somebody still votes for him locally.
Its indetectable. If you know where a dead/moved away friend or relative lived, you can go vote for him. No study can discern whether or not that has happened."
Ding!^^^
If you don't measure it and have no means to even attempt to measure it, then of course "studies" will find little of it.