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They say they don’t pay by the card, do have strong QA, turn in all registration cards because it’s required by law, and flag questionable cards when they’re turned in. If anyone on the other side has facts to contradict these claims, I’d like to hear them.
Archive for the ‘Vote Casting and Counting’ Category
March 9th, 2008
Category: Election reform
Sending out mailings to a neighborhood showing which residents voted in the past two elections and which didn’t, and promising to send out a similar mailing after the next election, boosts turnout at less than $2 per additional vote. Let’s get organized to do it.
February 12th, 2008
Category: Vote fraud
McCain steals votes in the wrong state and at the wrong season.
Maybe he isn’t a real conservative after all.
February 5th, 2008
Category: Vote fraud
Long lines at the polls in Atlanta. The bottleneck is at the identification verification stations, not the voting booths.
December 3rd, 2007
Category: Vote fraud
Former Republican FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith says that “voter ID” laws designed to suppress voting among Democratic-leaning demographic groups (poor people, old people, members of racial minorities, women) are really just fine, even though they don’t actually prevent any actual voting fraud. (Because there’s no significant amount of voting fraud committed by going to the [...]
June 22nd, 2007
Category: Vote fraud
They were trying to cheat black and Latino soldiers out of their right to vote.
April 12th, 2007
Category: Vote fraud
In six years of vigorous effort, DoJ has discovered no systematic vote fraud. It has, however, managed to ruin the lives of people who made innocent mistakes.
April 10th, 2007
Category: Vote fraud
The Election Assistance Commission pays experts (one Dem, one Rep) to figure out how much voter fraud and intimidation exists. The team says fraudulent voting isn’t much of a problem, but intimidation is. The Commission rewrite the report to say something different, suppresses the original, and holds the contractors to their contractual gag order.
Hearings, please.
March 13th, 2007
Category: Vote fraud
The FBI couldn’t find any forgeries, and the U.S. Attorney decided that he couldn’t prosecute people for voting fraudulently when they’d gotten ballots in the mail, sent by the state. But the Republicans had lost a close election, so the U.S. Attorney got fired for not convening a grand jury to harrass innocent people. Next time you read about “vote fraud,” think about this case.
