re: Voter fraud: We got proof it's easy

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Photo ID can solve all these problems.

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No it can't. Most voter fraud happens after the votes are cast. There are also fake ID's. Duh.

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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.

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The obvious fallacy here is the presumption that simply because a crime is easy - people will do it. There's very little to personally gain from casting a ballot you aren't entitled to cast.

You could also dump a gallon of paint in a U.S. Post Office collection box if you wanted to be an a-hole - and probably get away with it - yet this doesn't seem to be a big problem - as there is little to gain from it.