I see Rita Hart has submitted a complaint asking the House to overturn an election she lost to a Republican by six votes. Is this one of those “threats to our democracy” I keep hearing about?
I see Rita Hart has submitted a complaint asking the House to overturn an election she lost to a Republican by six votes. Is this one of those “threats to our democracy” I keep hearing about?
I suppose that depends on the details...
Tight races such as that are the reason we must remain vigilant to voting fraud. I know that fraud is rare and likely has no impact on national races but I'm not so sure about local races for elected office or tax levies, or even congressional races.
The easier we make it to cast a ballot the more likely it is that these tight races may be usurped.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
Before DT, we rarely had complaints about voter fraud. Now, because of him, people lament ad nauseam. Makes a person wonder what else unnecessarily will constantly be complained about because of his (many times ridiculous) claims. His presidency caused problems that may never go away....
Yes, one of those problems and annoyances being endless carping about Donald TrumpOriginally Posted by frugal-one
I can imagine that any elections results from a large population would have a small and usually inconsequential margin of error that may or may not be related to any voter fraud. I'd hardly call it a threat to democracy.
The easier we make it to vote, the larger the turnout and the more representative the vote will be of the will of the people. There obviously has to be security safeguards with any voting system and I don't know that one is any more secure than another without some sort of evidence.
... of poor people, people of color, single Moms, and that sort of riff-raff. Can't have that....
Pretty pathetic that some don’t want everyone to vote.
I want eligible people to vote appropriately according to law. I don’t want “everyone “to vote because “everyone “ is not eligible.
I think what we're missing in this discussion is that it would only take a handful of fraudulent votes to turn the race in question into a win for the Democrats. It's a perfect opportunity to infer that anyone in favor of enforcing election rules is a racist or sexist or outright social troglodyte. It seems to be normal behavior for many so we shouldn't take it personally.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
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