Is Making Voting Easy Making it Too Easy to Cheat?
Investigations and charges have resulted from voter fraud in the 2012 elections.
There have been many moves in recent years to ensure no voters are disenfranchised. Legislation has been passed to allow for more time to vote leading up to the day of the election. In addition, obtaining and voting by absentee ballot has now become a breeze. Are these moves, however, making voter fraud so much easier to commit? According to The Huffington Post, a Nevada Republican was arrested for voter fraud in the 2012 election when she attempted to vote for a second time. Roxanne Rubin, a worker on the Las Vegas Strip, claimed she was testing the integrity of the system. Authorities didn’t buy it, and she ended up with a $2,500 fine. Fox News also reported Feb. 19 that 19 people are currently under investigating in Ohio for allegedly …
Stan
5:12 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
The problem today is that not everybody has photo ID. If we want to go through massive effort to issue ID's to every voter fine, but what's the point there isn't a problem to fix. The purpose of the voter ID laws is to make it hard for the poor and city folks (that tend not to have a driver's license and who also tend to vote democratic) to vote thereby benefiting the GOP. I think the entire … more ›