Early voting problems

[Lobowolf]

I think it most reasonable to check voter IDs to make sure the identity is correct. Voters who do not have picture IDs should be (IMO) provided with them at registration.

 

However, the goal is to verify identities, not to disenfranchise voters. If a registered voter comes in (even if not a nun or priest) with an expired driver's license or passport, but the photo, address, and signature confirm the voter's identity, then it is (IMO) criminal to deny that person the right to vote.

 

 

In over eight years of working on the election commission here, I can say that I've never seen anyone attempt to vote fraudulently, nor do I know anyone else who has encountered such a situation.

I agree that expired photo ID's should suffice, but the nun story aside, Item 4 in the Rolling Stone article suggested (and "suggested" is an underbid) that photo ID shouldn't be required at all, which strikes me as off-the-charts nuts.

 

 

I haven't worked on an election commission, but I can't imagine that fraud is all that rare. My recollection of the Dornan-Sanchez Congressional race is that a bipartisan investigation concluded that hundreds of fraudulent votes had been recorded, but not enough to have changed the outcome, as Sanchez won by about a thousand votes. Still, a finding of a few hundred in a single Congressional district strikes me as surprisingly high.

[mike777]

Having lived in Chicago in the sixties I can never remember any voter fraud. Voting was pretty easy and straight forward.

[TimG]

In over eight years of working on the election commission here, I can say that I've never seen anyone attempt to vote fraudulently, nor do I know anyone else who has encountered such a situation.

But, how many have voted fraudulently and escaped your attention?

 

I went and picked up an absentee ballot today. Also got one for my wife. I needed no photo ID, though I did need to know address and date of birth.

 

I was told that the ballot had to be returned to the Town Hall by Monday, November 3rd, or it could be dropped off at the polling place by an immediate family member. I asked if they had to be a registered voter. "No." Can I send it to school with my son? "Yes." He is in the 5th grade and the polling place is his elementary school gymnasium, we're a small town and the clerk in the Town Hall knew he I was talking about a 9 to 11 year-old.

[mike777]

:D

 

I would guess voting for a union or a democrat should not be considered voter fraud.

NOT voting for a union or a democrat may be voter suppression

 

Voting against a union or for a republican may be voter fraud.

[Hanoi5]

So, are they using the same machines than Venezuela?

[luke warm]

Having lived in Chicago in the sixties I can never remember any voter fraud. Voting was pretty easy and straight forward.

:P

[barmar]

Having lived in Chicago in the sixties I can never remember any voter fraud.  Voting was pretty easy and straight forward.

:)

Isn't Chicago where the phrase "Vote early, vote often" was coined? :)

[mike777]

Having lived in Chicago in the sixties I can never remember any voter fraud.  Voting was pretty easy and straight forward.

:)

Isn't Chicago where the phrase "Vote early, vote often" was coined? :)

Yes, in general, if you vote early you will have more time to vote again.

[mycroft]

I thought you could only "vote often" in Daleyland if your address was "headstone #xxxx, Cook County Graveyard"