Colorado Finds Record Registration Fraud.
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It appears that quite a bit of fraud was caused by registration campaigns, in which workers may get paid depending on the number of people they register. One person, it seems, has registered 35 times.
The US really needs a 20th century voting system. Then, maybe, we might be able to upgrade to a 21st century system. If you can register many times by changing a few slight details, there is a major problem. Can't registration be based on something that people can't change, like a social security number?
Actually, the voting system needs to be nationalized, because many people have been able to vote in one state while recieving absentee ballots from a different state. For example, thousands of New York voters also cast (or were able to cast) absentee ballots for Florida in 2000. New York, by the way, happened to be quite pro-Gore, so no one can claim these guys "stole" the election for Bush. Additionally, hundreds of convicted felons have registered, and many voted in 2000. Convicted felons are not allowed to vote, and they tend to be on the democratic side.
Beforee the 2008 election, thew entire system will desperatly need an overhual and a huge networking project to ensure that each voter is allowed to vote and each voter casts one, and only one, vote.
It appears that quite a bit of fraud was caused by registration campaigns, in which workers may get paid depending on the number of people they register. One person, it seems, has registered 35 times.
The US really needs a 20th century voting system. Then, maybe, we might be able to upgrade to a 21st century system. If you can register many times by changing a few slight details, there is a major problem. Can't registration be based on something that people can't change, like a social security number?
Actually, the voting system needs to be nationalized, because many people have been able to vote in one state while recieving absentee ballots from a different state. For example, thousands of New York voters also cast (or were able to cast) absentee ballots for Florida in 2000. New York, by the way, happened to be quite pro-Gore, so no one can claim these guys "stole" the election for Bush. Additionally, hundreds of convicted felons have registered, and many voted in 2000. Convicted felons are not allowed to vote, and they tend to be on the democratic side.
Beforee the 2008 election, thew entire system will desperatly need an overhual and a huge networking project to ensure that each voter is allowed to vote and each voter casts one, and only one, vote.
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