When you remove the checks to ensure the validity of the vote, makes it a bit hard to prove fraud. Which was the fraud. Ever vote from overseas? Oddly enough, you have to request a ballot. And prove you are the person who is voting. When you mass mail ballots to everybody on the rolls, and make sure nobody can validate the rolls for accuracy, you open the election to all sorts of shenanigans which can never be proven.
Like leaving a store wide open and not letting anybody watch it. All the goods will go away, but you can never prove a crime happened.
This is the biggest problem regarding election and voter fraud - you CAN prosecute a PERSON if you can demonstrate they did something illegal - like, vote twice or vote repeatedly in different districts. This DOES happen, and in the case of someone running for office in Maryland, it had the effect of disqualifying her from running for office.
Flabbergasted voters on Maryland's Eastern Shore expressed a mix of surprise and disappointment on Tuesday that a Democratic candidate for Congress dropped out of the race after voting in two states at the same time.
www.cbsnews.com
Stuff like THIS - happens. The problem is, it doesn't really get to where we're looking - at CHANGING elections.
THIS part is especially relevant - -
"Like leaving a store wide open and not letting anybody watch it. All the goods will go away, but you can never prove a crime happened."
If you find a dead body on a street, yes, you can conclude a crime took place - just as in your store example, the store being empty of stuff does indicate that everything as stolen - but without a suspect, all you can do is call the insurance company (who will probably question why the door was unlocked or unwatched).
But courts send PEOPLE to jail - they do not make judgments on bad election processes. You know that old joke, where a student blatantly cheats on his exam, and when the professor refuses to accept it, he asks if the professor knows who he is - and when told "no" - he quickly slips his exam into the middle of the exam pile. Election fraud isn't JUST hard to prove - you need SOMEONE to send to jail. What do you do when a dead person mails their vote in? What do you do when a mail drop has a thousand votes, all in the same handwriting, and no name attached to the vote? What do you do when a precinct tallies more votes than registered voters - or a region has more votes CAST than there are eligible persons that CAN vote?
Who do you charge? The voting process? You can't send the system to jail. And as a court, you can't open a thorough investigation - you decide who is guilty. Oh there's a crime committed - you just don't have a person to charge.
And as long as one party always benefits from it, you can bet there'll be no investigation.
We now have an election process so wide open, with so few controls, that it can be exploited to elect just about anyone. It doesn't matter if someone says, oh but we follow all of the processes very strictly - this is like someone convinced they can't get into an accident because they check the rear facing camera - you don't GET everything.
I have a proposal for Project Veritas - make it your aim to cheat and elect a fictitious character - say - Mickey Mouse. PROVE beyond a shadow of a doubt that the voting process can EASILY be thwarted. Because it can. And no one will get caught.
