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The Thing That Never Happens is Happening Again.

All I know is when the Lumbee's receive their rightful Federal recognition, I will be at opening night of the casino on 95.
 
Sounds like the system is working just fine. They found irregularities (apparently, less than 20 people that may not have voted appropriately, if my math is right) and they are having a do-over.

“It is not unusual that we have one or two new elections ordered in a municipal election year because of the large number of municipalities that hold elections,” said Don Wright, general counsel to the state board.
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That's one or two out of 550, which by my amateur math is a 0.36% error rate.

It is not clear to me that this problem would have been averted with photo ID, abolition of same-day registration, or any of the other recently enacted measures. Per the article, the problem with improper id for same-day registration was a result of election staff not following existing (pre-GOP takeover) procedures.
 
Deacon923 said:
Sounds like the system is working just fine. They found irregularities (apparently, less than 20 people that may not have voted appropriately, if my math is right) and they are having a do-over.

That's one or two out of 550, which by my amateur math is a 0.36% error rate.

It is not clear to me that this problem would have been averted with photo ID, abolition of same-day registration, or any of the other recently enacted measures. Per the article, the problem with improper id for same-day registration was a result of election staff not following existing (pre-GOP takeover) procedures.
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Then you're not reading the article where they "proved" their "residency" for a same-day registration with a photocopy(!) of a lease. So the entire town has their vote thrown out and we have to start over.
 
jhmd2000 said:
Then you're not reading the article where they "proved" their "residency" for a same-day registration with a photocopy(!) of a lease. So the entire town has their vote thrown out and we have to start over.
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No, i read it perfectly. you failed to note the part of the article stating that this was not permitted by existing law and the poll workers messed up.

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Deacon923 said:
No, i read it perfectly. you failed to note the part of the article stating that this was not permitted by existing law and the poll workers messed up.

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B/c we bend over backwards to avoid the clarity and effectiveness that comes from using government issued documentation as the only form of i.d., which has been working effectively in 98% of the rest of life as an adult. Ever try to board an airplane or buy a bottle of booze with a photocopy of a lease? Me neither.

No, we eschew the reliable and functional set of rules and instead seek out a labyrinth of confusing and unnecessary rules that---surprise!, no one can remember or enforce and now cause reversible error in the name of ---and OMG this is the best part---- "making sure that every vote counts."

The result of this genius? NO votes counted. Not a single one of them.

Nice work, Dems.
 
A new article from John Fund documenting an investigation into in-person voter fraud (the kind that doesn't exist):

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368234/voter-fraud-weve-got-proof-its-easy-john-fund#!

New York City’s watchdog Department of Investigations has just provided the latest evidence of how easy it is to commit voter fraud that is almost undetectable. DOI undercover agents showed up at 63 polling places last fall and pretended to be voters who should have been turned away by election officials; the agents assumed the names of individuals who had died or moved out of town, or who were sitting in jail. In 61 instances, or 97 percent of the time, the testers were allowed to vote. Those who did vote cast only a write-in vote for a “John Test” so as to not affect the outcome of any contest. DOI published its findings two weeks ago in a searing 70-page report accusing the city’s Board of Elections of incompetence, waste, nepotism, and lax procedures.
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You’d think more media outlets would have been interested, because the sloppiness revealed in the DOI report is mind-boggling. Young undercover agents were able to vote using the names of people three times their age, people who in fact were dead. In one example, a 24-year female agent gave the name of someone who had died in 2012 at age 87; the workers at the Manhattan polling site gave her a ballot, no questions asked. Even the two cases where poll workers turned away an investigator raise eyebrows. In the first case, a poll worker on Staten Island walked outside with the undercover investigator who had just been refused a ballot; the “voter” was advised to go to the polling place near where he used to live and “play dumb” in order to vote. In the second case, the investigator was stopped from voting only because the felon whose name he was using was the son of the election official at the polling place.
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Liberals who oppose ballot-security measures claim that there are few prosecutions for voter fraud, which they take to mean that fraud doesn’t happen. But as the New York DOI report demonstrates, it is comically easy, given the sloppy-voter registration records often kept in America, to commit voter fraud in person. (A 2012 study by the Pew Research Center found that nationwide, at least 1.8 million deceased voters are still registered to vote.) And unless someone confesses, in-person voter fraud is very difficult to detect — or stop. New York’s Gothamist news service reported last September that four poll workers in Brooklyn reported they believed people were trying to vote in the name of other registered voters. Police officers observed the problems but did nothing because voter fraud isn’t under the police department’s purview.
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