- Jul 2, 2003
- 155,587
- 20,739
- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Female
- Faith
- Baptist
- Marital Status
- Married
- Politics
- US-Democrat
Nixon and Republicans questioned the results in Chicago which Kennedy won by a lot and it involved paper ballots, and not mail in voting. Paper ballots had issues too. Remember Florida and the hanging chads in 2000?Meanwhile, we're to accept on faith that there's absolutely no shenanigans because they said they aren't? Just like that time in Georgia where ballots surfaced that put a gubernatorial candidate over the top and, per the voting list, everyone cast their ballots in alphabetical order? (Candidate's name was Gene Talmadge, if you care to look into that). No charges were ever filed in that, BTW, so by the measure seen here, we can't accept that something funny was going in. They were filed in another case where people were doing what we're told people never do, and there were convictions in that.
Can't vouch for the story of irregularities in Chicago that helped in Nixon's defeat in 1960. Nixon decided not to pursue it. Just like I can't vouch for a couple of scandalous accounts of other shenanigans as they would be categorized as hearsay. When you have some relatives in politics, you grow up hearing the most interesting stories.
I suspect there were election irregularities in the South during Jim Crow that had nothing to do with mail in ballots.
I did see the video footage, on a news broadcast, of a mechanical vote counting machine that gave different results each time the ballots ran through it. That was back in the 1970s.
Bottom line is that, while it may not be visible far away in Australia, the election process in the US isn't squeaky clean. which is why we had court ordered FBI poll observers in some places some years ago. This goes back long before Trump even thought about running.
Is this proof of fraud in California? No, although I suspect any proof wouldn't be considered proof enough in some circles. What it does mean is that fraud is possible. Just because Trump says there is doesn't mean there isn't, which seems to be the main thing going on in this thread.
Mail voting fraud: Data points to low risk and high benefits for voters | Brookings
Analysis finds mail voting fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare and shows universal vote-by-mail boosts access, turnout, and cost efficiency.
Our analysis cross-references cases of mail voting fraud with an analysis of each state’s mail voting system to determine what percentage of the very small total amount of mail voting fraud comes from excuse absentee, no-excuse absentee, and universal vote-by-mail voting systems.
As our analysis focuses on four of the five most recent general elections (2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022),7 we relied on records of cases from the Heritage Foundation’s database. Each case entry involved one individual who had been charged with a type of election fraud.
First, we find that cases of fraud involving any form of mail ballots were very rare. Across the entire country, and utilizing a maximally inclusive estimate, between six and 46 cases of mail voting fraud were identified in each general election. ......
Upvote
0