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by bigiain 5703 days ago
It's not jut about whether vote fraud is happening though - its also about the _perception_ of whether vote fraud _can_ happen.

I think it would be worth expending a considerable amount of resources not in the expectation of catching any fraud, but to be able to demonstrate that if there _were_ any vote fraud, there are appropriate means in place to find it.
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eli 5702 days ago
Actually, we already kinda did that. Attorney General Ashcroft made voter fraud a top priority for the Department of Justice. Yet there were very few convictions nationwide, and nearly all of them were for honest mistakes.
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something 5702 days ago
exactly. to a cynic, of which there are many in the younger population that tends not to vote in the US, "mostly works" can mean "doesn't work" (...so why bother?)

if you KNEW the system was perfect, that alone might be reason to participate.

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