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The 2012 Election: Did illegal votes make a difference?

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So, I know we've all heard the reports of (more than a few) illegal votes being cast. Either by double voting or votes made by non-citizens. I don't really want to get into whether or not illegal-aliens have the right to vote but more whether or not votes considered illegal made a difference in who prevailed this election. If you don't think that this is a valid question, no need to comment! Look forward to your opinions! :2wave:
 
I'm sure some illegal votes were cast. I doubt very much that they made any significant difference in the outcomes.
 
So, I know we've all heard the reports of (more than a few) illegal votes being cast. Either by double voting or votes made by non-citizens. I don't really want to get into whether or not illegal-aliens have the right to vote but more whether or not votes considered illegal made a difference in who prevailed this election. If you don't think that this is a valid question, no need to comment! Look forward to your opinions! :2wave:

Doubt it......the number of cases of fraud required to make a difference would be huge and would require a large scale organized effort which would be pretty difficult to keep covered up.

Also...I guess you would have to be pretty naive to think if large scale voter fraud was a norm both sides wouldn't partake in it. In that case election in the US period are a sham.
 
Doubt it......the number of cases of fraud required to make a difference would be huge and would require a large scale organized effort which would be pretty difficult to keep covered up.

Also...I guess you would have to be pretty naive to think if large scale voter fraud was a norm both sides wouldn't partake in it. In that case election in the US period are a sham.



I can't pretend that I don't wish that we had Romney as president but I do agree. Any organized effort would be hard to hide and because both sides participate a lot of illegal votes cast would likely cancel out each other.
 
Double votes are picked up by the system.

If you are going to influence an election, it's virtually impossible to do it by "illegal voting". Any large numbers of such votes would be red flagged for a variety of reasons depending on the nature of the fraud.

If you want to influence an election by illegal means, you purge qualified voters from the rolls right before the election, like Jeb Bush did in Florida in the 2000 election, costing Gore about 10,000 votes and an easy win. Or you set up phony registration schemes, like Romney operative Nathan Sproul did. Or you make it otherwise difficult for the poor and minorities to vote, which is the current GOP scam.

VIDEO: Republicans caught committing voter fraud, only registering Romney voters - Detroit liberal | Examiner.com

GOP registration worker charged with voter fraud - NBC Politics
 
who knows. voting over site has become so lax no one has any idea how much voting fraud goes on. But i will tell you the ones who want to make sure voting over site remains lax all the ones how benefit from voter fraud
 
who knows. voting over site has become so lax no one has any idea how much voting fraud goes on. But i will tell you the ones who want to make sure voting over site remains lax all the ones how benefit from voter fraud

Sure...if voter fraud was effective and easy to carry off I'm sure that no Republican or Conservative group would abuse the system...
 
Double votes are picked up by the system.

If you are going to influence an election, it's virtually impossible to do it by "illegal voting". Any large numbers of such votes would be red flagged for a variety of reasons depending on the nature of the fraud.

If you want to influence an election by illegal means, you purge qualified voters from the rolls right before the election, like Jeb Bush did in Florida in the 2000 election, costing Gore about 10,000 votes and an easy win. Or you set up phony registration schemes, like Romney operative Nathan Sproul did. Or you make it otherwise difficult for the poor and minorities to vote, which is the current GOP scam.

VIDEO: Republicans caught committing voter fraud, only registering Romney voters - Detroit liberal | Examiner.com

GOP registration worker charged with voter fraud - NBC Politics

wrong again as usual with absenty ballots it is very easy to vote twice, I know from first hand experience. Me and my father both have the same name he voted absenty i voted at the polls. went to the polls this year gave them my voter registration card she looked on the list and said i was on the list twice and i explained the other should be my father and he should have been scratched of the list because he voted already so he could have very easily voted again in person

Ohio Poll Worker Who Admitted to Voting Twice for Obama Is Convicted of Voter Fraud, Faces 6 Years in Prison | Video | TheBlaze.com

only reason she was caught because she admitted doing so on TV


New O'Keefe video: Obama campaign staffer caught helping activist vote twice | The Daily Caller

she was caught because of a sting not by police but a journalist

Three North Carolina Democrats admit voting twice for Obama | The Daily Caller

do you want me to post more?
 
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Sure...if voter fraud was effective and easy to carry off I'm sure that no Republican or Conservative group would abuse the system...

then why would they want stronger voter over site if they where. the only ones who would want a weaker security systems at homes or business are the ones who want to rob them
 
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then why would they want stronger voter over site if they where. the only ones who would want a weaker security systems at homes or business are the ones who want to rob them

So you honestly believe that if you could win elections via voter fraud Republican or Conservative groups wouldn't commit voter fraud...that takes tribalism and "me good they bad" to a completely different level.
 
So, I know we've all heard the reports of (more than a few) illegal votes being cast. Either by double voting or votes made by non-citizens. I don't really want to get into whether or not illegal-aliens have the right to vote but more whether or not votes considered illegal made a difference in who prevailed this election. If you don't think that this is a valid question, no need to comment! Look forward to your opinions! :2wave:
Let see, Obama had 65.9 million to Romney's 60.9 million votes, I'm pretty sure you can figure out the answer.
 
No. Hell, the majority of legal votes don't even make a difference.


Agreed. This past election definitely shows you what the political lean of the United States of America is, for better or worse.
 
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So you honestly believe that if you could win elections via voter fraud Republican or Conservative groups wouldn't commit voter fraud...that takes tribalism and "me good they bad" to a completely different level.

There are immoral people on both sides who would take advantage of the system. The whole point of elections is to appoint officials who we don't think would take advantage of the system like that. I agree, anyone who is for stricter voting laws likely wouldn't take advantage of the system, let them be Republican or Democrat.
 
Agreed. This past election definitely show you what the political lean of the United States of America is, for better or worse.

I'm not even talking about that. I think the country is fairly evenly divided. Almost a full 50% will be pissed off regardless of who wins.

What I'm talking about is how the system is set up so that votes don't really matter that much. In most states, the election is just a formality, the decision is all-but-assured well in advanced. I live in Illinois, so I know my vote is going democrat every presidential election whether I like it or not. Someone in Texas is always voting republican. Done deal.

In swing states, votes kind of matter, but only a little bit. Even if Romney had won Florida and Ohio, he'd have still lost the election. Without those two states, Obama would have still had 285 electoral votes. Romney lost the popular vote by 5 million votes or so in total, or in other words, by the combined amount of votes he lost New York and California by.

In order for an illegal vote to make any difference, it has to be coupled with hundreds of thousands of other illegal votes (If not millions of illegal votes) in a state where votes actually matter a little bit. Illegal votes in Illinois? As worthless as the legal votes in this state. In Texas? A pointless exercise in mental masturbation. In Ohio, there's an outside chance it could affect that state's outcome as long as you got about 200,000 of them, but that still might not make any difference at all as far as the election goes.

The whole "illegal votes" thing is a load of nonsense. It merely gives the illusion that our votes matter, when they do not.
 
In order for an illegal vote to make any difference, it has to be coupled with hundreds of thousands of other illegal votes (If not millions of illegal votes) in a state where votes actually matter a little bit. Illegal votes in Illinois? As worthless as the legal votes in this state. In Texas? A pointless exercise in mental masturbation. In Ohio, there's an outside chance it could affect that state's outcome as long as you got about 200,000 of them, but that still might not make any difference at all as far as the election goes.

The whole "illegal votes" thing is a load of nonsense. It merely gives the illusion that our votes matter, when they do not.

Or it could be just 3 votes required as in the NH Senate election of 1974 where the winner won by 2.
 
There are immoral people on both sides who would take advantage of the system. The whole point of elections is to appoint officials who we don't think would take advantage of the system like that. I agree, anyone who is for stricter voting laws likely wouldn't take advantage of the system, let them be Republican or Democrat.

I agree with your first part. People could come up with any way to validate cheating the system...like Obama is so dangerous he would ruin the country or abortion is murder and getting people in power that would overturn abortion is worth bending the laws.

As for the second part...I disagree. By generally all the data available there is not a problem with widespread voter fraud so why exactly do we need to make voting more inconvenient for anyone? Why are we making people jump through any hoops to stop a problem that doesn't exist? I disagree it has anything to do with people taking advantage of the system and everything to do with setting up laws that adversely affects some groups over others....and generally those groups tend to vote Democrat.
 
As for the second part...I disagree. By generally all the data available there is not a problem with widespread voter fraud so why exactly do we need to make voting more inconvenient for anyone? Why are we making people jump through any hoops to stop a problem that doesn't exist? I disagree it has anything to do with people taking advantage of the system and everything to do with setting up laws that adversely affects some groups over others....and generally those groups tend to vote Democrat.

Why are they making people get a picture ID on EBT cards but opposed picture ID for voting? Certainly people eat more often than they vote so the 'inconvienence' is much worse for them than the average voter.

"Mass. lawmakers agree on photo IDs for EBT cards"

Mass. lawmakers agree on photo IDs for EBT cards
 
Or it could be just 3 votes required as in the NH Senate election of 1974 where the winner won by 2.

I bet you can count on one hand all of the times that something like that happened in this country.

But what does the 1974 NH Senate election have to do with the 2012 election, or anything I said?
 
Why are they making people get a picture ID on EBT cards but opposed picture ID for voting? Certainly people eat more often than they vote so the 'inconvienence' is much worse for them than the average voter.

"Mass. lawmakers agree on photo IDs for EBT cards"

Mass. lawmakers agree on photo IDs for EBT cards

The inconvenience is getting the picture taken. As you said...you eat daily and most voters vote once every 2 or 4 years. Which do you think is worth sitting around for hours in some state or federal office for a picture?
 
I bet you can count on one hand all of the times that something like that happened in this country.

But what does the 1974 NH Senate election have to do with the 2012 election, or anything I said?

It shows that elections can be close, like in 1832 when Maryland's electoral votes were won by a 4 vote margin. It doesn't always have to be 100,000 votes to swing an election result.
 
wrong again as usual with absenty ballots it is very easy to vote twice, I know from first hand experience. Me and my father both have the same name he voted absenty i voted at the polls. went to the polls this year gave them my voter registration card she looked on the list and said i was on the list twice and i explained the other should be my father and he should have been scratched of the list because he voted already so he could have very easily voted again in person

So, they caught the problem and did something about it. And you think this is evidence that multiple voting is easier? And five examples of double votes in the entire nation is peanuts compared to the efforts that Joaquin mentioned.

Agreed. This past election definitely shows you what the political lean of the United States of America is, for better or worse.

The political lean of the USA is apathy. Not even 60% of eligible voters cast a ballot.

There are immoral people on both sides who would take advantage of the system. The whole point of elections is to appoint officials who we don't think would take advantage of the system like that. I agree, anyone who is for stricter voting laws likely wouldn't take advantage of the system, let them be Republican or Democrat.

At the moment, "stricter" voting laws aren't about protecting the integrity of the system. They're about stopping Democrats from voting. So, rather than "stricter", let's go with "honest" voting laws. Those are squarely on the side of Democrats right now.
 
The inconvenience is getting the picture taken. As you said...you eat daily and most voters vote once every 2 or 4 years. Which do you think is worth sitting around for hours in some state or federal office for a picture?

Which do you think is more difficult and inconvient, getting you picture taken for an EBT card or for your voters card?
 
At the moment, "stricter" voting laws aren't about protecting the integrity of the system. They're about stopping Democrats from voting. So, rather than "stricter", let's go with "honest" voting laws. Those are squarely on the side of Democrats right now.

So Republicans would not hve to follow the voting laws, only Democrats? Well that's not right!
 
It shows that elections can be close, like in 1832 when Maryland's electoral votes were won by a 4 vote margin. It doesn't always have to be 100,000 votes to swing an election result.

Sure, some elections can be close.

But what does that have to do with what I said or the 2012 election?
 
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