Why is it easier to vote several times illegally than it is to legally copy a song from iTunes?
How many transactions does Amazon.com handle in a single day? Or iTunes? Or any number of commercial sites which handle nothing of importance compared to the sanctity of the principle of one man, one vote?
Yet while Amazon.com et al continue to hum along handling all of these transactions and the attendant user data almost flawlessly, state governments don't have a program in place that can keep ineligible voters from voting and can't keep fraudulent voters from voting over and over.
How hard would it be on a state-wide basis to have a central voter database that could immediately detect duplicate voters based on Social Security Numbers or birth dates, etc. or combinations thereof? You voted in Precinct 407? Precinct 408 knows about it before you can drive be driven over there to vote a second time.
With the current state of computer technology and the pervasiveness of broadband connections, I can't imagine that this is even a challenge.......technologically.
It has to be the Lawyers.
Of course, there is a vested interest by some in such free-wheeling access to the polls, but when you look at the outright organized fraud that is ACORN-based voter registration drives, surely this is something that should appall anyone and everyone.
Anyone and everyone who thinks that it is a good idea to allow voting at all, I mean.
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Sure voting fraud, and attempts at voting fraud are always an outrage.
It is just part of the political process. It happens on both sides.
As a party, we rarely accuse the Dems, because we have had our probems too. Sometimes you are the bug and sometimes you are the windshield. So we just sit back and see who gets the worse press at the worst time.
Which "we" are we talking about here? "It is just part of the political process"? B.S. Shep's Rule: Anyone who registers to vote fraudulently gets fined and their voting rights taken away for a decade and is entered into a nationwide database of known "off limits" voters. Anyone who aids and abets said fraudulent registration (read ACORN volunteers) goes to prison. Anything less that this level of strict enforcement makes a mockery of our democracy. Which is where we are now.
Voting fraud...happens on both sides.
Name me one instance of Republican vote fraud. Just one. I'll be very glad to give you instances of Democratic vote fraud.
From the same comment:
Sure voting fraud, and attempts at voting fraud are always an outrage.
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So we just sit back and see who gets the worse press at the worst time.
That is some scary bad outrage you have going on there.
Walsingham, it's a matter of survival characteristics. Amazon and iTunes have to be capable of discerning fraud to survive.
The left has to be able to commit and perpetuate fraud to survive.
All hail Darwin. If you believe in survival characteristics, everything else pretty much becomes tautological.
Just think of utter hell for the left: judges who don't insert themselves into verdicts, fair elections, honored contracts.
Oh. And property rights. Let's not forget property rights.