Voter fraud: We got proof it's easy | National Review Online.com.

Just how many votes by fraud is ok ? Maybe 3-5 votes, or what would you be comfortable with in voter fraud ? That would be a limited amount, but how about 61 votes by fraud, would you think that could be to many in one local election ?

The board of elections wants to prosecute those doing the voter fraud rather than looking at just how it was possible to do the fraud.

Photo ID can solve all these problems.

Liberals who oppose efforts to prevent voter fraud claim that there is no fraud - or at least not that involves voting at the polls.

But New York City's watchdog Department of Investigations had 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 cast a vote wrote in “ 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.

Good-government groups are gobsmacked at Souma's refusal to smell the stench of corruption in his patronage - riddled empire. “ They should focus not on assigning blame to others, but on taking responsibility for solving the problems,” Dick Dadey of the watchdog group Citizens Union told the Daily News. “ It is a case of the Board of Elections passing the buck.”

DOI officials respond that the use of undercover agents is routine in anti-corruption probes and that people should carefully read the 70-page report they've filled before criticizing it. They are surprised ( REALLY ?!!! ) how little media attention their report has received.

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 old female agent gave the name of of someone who had died in 2012 at age 87; the workers at the Manhatten polling site gave her a ballot, no questions asked. Even the two cases where poll workers turned away an investigator raised 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 elected official at the polling place.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG.

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