{"id":6141,"date":"2014-01-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2014-01-27T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T20:11:26","slug":"voter-fraud-proven-to-be-easy-and-undetectable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6141","title":{"rendered":"Voter Fraud: Proven to be Easy and Undetectable"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons used against the idea of requiring ID to vote is that there has been so little voter fraud detected, that this is a solution looking for a problem. Well, the Department of Investigations in New York City recently finished up a report that shows that voter fraud can be pretty darn easy<\/a>. Worse, we would have no idea at all that it was actually happening.<\/p>\n

Undercover agents from the DOI tried to cast ballots as felons or dead people at 63 polling places last fall. Of the 63 attempts, 61, or 97%, were successful. Now, when they voted, they did so with a write-in for a fictitious \u201cJohn Test\u201d to keep from affecting the vote count. Ultimately, the DOI published its findings a few weeks ago in a 70-page report accusing the city\u2019s Board of Elections of incompetence, waste, nepotism, and lax procedures.<\/p>\n

Of the two attempts that failed, in the first case, a poll worker followed the agent outside and the \u201cvoter\u201d was advised to go to the polling place near where he used to live and \u201cplay dumb\u201d 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. So basically, we\u2019re talking about a 100% success rate, completely undetectable, with just a few changes in circumstances. <\/p>\n

So the Board of Elections immediately got down to business and started coming up with ways to avoid this in the future. Heh, no, of course not. This is government we\u2019re talking about! John Fund, who wrote the article I\u2019m referring to, put it this way. \u201cThe Board approved a resolution referring the DOI\u2019s investigators for prosecution. It also asked the state\u2019s attorney general to determine whether DOI had violated the civil rights of voters who had moved or are felons, and it sent a letter of complaint to Mayor Bill de Blasio.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yup, they pointed fingers instead of fixing the problem. That\u2019s why the legislature needs to deal with this, so entrenched bureaucracies don\u2019t stick us with a broken system that\u2019s easily gamed. And, as I\u2019ve noted before, when Georgia got its voter ID law, minority participation went up<\/i>, and higher than majority participation did. A win-win situation, and one that gets around a government board that is too busy with their little fiefdom to do the right thing. Who could be against that? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons used against the idea of requiring ID to vote is that there has been so little voter fraud detected, that this is a solution looking for a problem. Well, the Department of Investigations in New York City recently finished up a report that shows that voter fraud can be pretty darn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-voter-id"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}