Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 11:11:34 -0400
From: Tarus BALOG
Subject: Re: Voter Fraud
On 11/05/2016 10:32 AM, Sharon Theresa (Baldwin) Theil wrote:
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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 18:10:31 -0400
From: “Sharon Theresa (Baldwin) Theil”
Subject: Voter FraudHuh. OK. So, normally we don’t need ID to vote, for President of the
United States, the most powerful office on the face of the earth.Well, it’s OK because you still need to know where to go to vote. You
just can’t go any where, right? You have to go to your assigned polling
place. And that information is not online, right?I go online. Click. Click. Type in name. Click. Address. Click. Click.
And there is my polling place.Scared yet? You will be.
Uh, no. I’m not. I refuse to be caught up in the “Be scared but buy stuff” mentality being pushed through the United States since 9/11.
Luckily, Chatham County has a very detailed web site about voting questions. Once you are registered it is “permanent” unless you move[1]. They take address verification seriously, which is probably why you had ssues.
Look, voter fraud is almost non-existent[2] and it definitely has no impact on large races like that of the President of the United States.
The reason is simple: one single vote, or even ten, doesn’t make a difference and the penalties are huge. In North Carolina pretty much anything you can think of that would count as vote tampering is a felony[3]. So the risks are large and the benefits are slim.
Voting is a right explicitly stated in the Constitution to every citizen (unless you lose it by, you guessed it, committing a felony, and that is just in certain States). We should never put up barriers to the exercise of that right.
-T
[1] http://www.chathamnc.org/
[2] https://www.brennancenter.
[3] http://www.ncga.state.nc.