Butthole Bandits 7 and a throwback to Jim Crowe

[Lemur]

Had a moment to get my Google on. I guess absentee ballot fraud is not so much a thing of the past, although it seems a lot of it is confined to primaries these days, which makes sense. Smaller number of total votes, so a smaller fraud can have a bigger result. Also, I don't believe primaries are policed by the state so much as the parties themselves. Fudging the numbers makes a lot more sense. Anyway, recent examples:

State senate primary, Republican, MA

Congressional primary, Democratic, FL

Local elections, FL. This is a good one, cops actually found filled-in absentee ballots warehoused in the home of a self-described "ballot broker."

Lots and lots of articles about Florida. I guess something about the election structure of the Sunshine State makes absentee ballot fraud especially easy. I've said it before, I'll say it again: God hates Florida.

So these are recent, verified, and in some cases quite large instances of vote fraud. Apparently nobody cares. All anybody wants to talk about is walk-in voting, which makes sense if you are a complete and total idiot.

Look at it from a criminal's perspective: What's the least-effort, lowest-risk way to stuff a ballot box? How unbelievably stupid would you have to be to commit the crime in person when you could insulate yourself? This is why there are a grand total of ten (10) documented cases of in-person voter fraud since 2000. Here, a detailed list of all of them. I cannot begin to express how false and mendacious I find this entire "controversy." Even if you decide to count every single charge of in-person voter fraud, and don't bother with due process or conviction, there have been 633 charges of in-person voter fraud since 2000. That averages out to 53 charges of in-person voter fraud in the entire USA per year.

As opposed to the well-documented problem of absentee ballot fraud, and the inexplicable redshift since the introduction of paperless voting machines.

Gah.