Cases of Election Fraud

dudeguyy said:
Interesting.

I don't know that I'd consider this voter fraud, but if I was a Trump supporter it'd drive me up a friggin' wall.

U.S. voters look to game election system by 'trading' ballots

Sophy Warner wanted to vote for third-party U.S. presidential candidate Jill Stein. But she worried that her ballot, cast in the swing state of Ohio, might help Republican Donald Trump capture the White House.

Through the website "Trump Traders," the 20-year-old biology student at Cleveland State University got in touch with Marc Baluda, 44, a Republican corporate lawyer in California who opposes Trump's candidacy and planned to vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

The two strange bedfellows made a deal worthy of congressional horse-trading: Warner would vote for Clinton in Ohio, where polls show a tight race, while Baluda would cast a ballot for the Green Party candidate Stein in California, where Clinton is assured of winning the state's electoral votes.

Tens of thousands of voters, the vast majority seeking to prevent a Trump presidency, have signed up on "vote-swapping" exchanges in advance of Tuesday's Election Day. There is no way to verify the ballots are cast as agreed, though some people are taking "ballot selfies" in states where such photos are legal.

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Trump Traders had matched 40,000 voters as of Monday, according to co-founder John Stubbs. Although that may be a small fraction of the electorate, a few hundred votes could make a difference in a state where the race is close.
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That is interesting.

It would be pretty hard to say that is illegal or some how fraud. People are free to make whatever voting alliances they so choose.

 
BigRedBuster said:
dudeguyy said:
Interesting.

I don't know that I'd consider this voter fraud, but if I was a Trump supporter it'd drive me up a friggin' wall.

U.S. voters look to game election system by 'trading' ballots

Sophy Warner wanted to vote for third-party U.S. presidential candidate Jill Stein. But she worried that her ballot, cast in the swing state of Ohio, might help Republican Donald Trump capture the White House.

Through the website "Trump Traders," the 20-year-old biology student at Cleveland State University got in touch with Marc Baluda, 44, a Republican corporate lawyer in California who opposes Trump's candidacy and planned to vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

The two strange bedfellows made a deal worthy of congressional horse-trading: Warner would vote for Clinton in Ohio, where polls show a tight race, while Baluda would cast a ballot for the Green Party candidate Stein in California, where Clinton is assured of winning the state's electoral votes.

Tens of thousands of voters, the vast majority seeking to prevent a Trump presidency, have signed up on "vote-swapping" exchanges in advance of Tuesday's Election Day. There is no way to verify the ballots are cast as agreed, though some people are taking "ballot selfies" in states where such photos are legal.

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Trump Traders had matched 40,000 voters as of Monday, according to co-founder John Stubbs. Although that may be a small fraction of the electorate, a few hundred votes could make a difference in a state where the race is close.
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That is interesting.

It would be pretty hard to say that is illegal or some how fraud. People are free to make whatever voting alliances they so choose.
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According to what you posted, one person one vote doesn't mean a God damned thing.

 
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/07/those_insanely_long_early_voting_lines_were_a_result_of_republican_voter.html

In July, the 4th Circuit blocked this legislation from taking effect this election cycle, holding that it violated both the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause as a race-based voting restriction. But Republican-controlled county election boards implemented the early voting cuts anyway. (These boards retainpower over county-level voting practices and claimed they had decided independently to roll back early voting, not implement the now-blocked law that did the exact same thing.) The boards colluded to cut early voting—and Sunday voting especially—in Democrat-heavy areas, as GOP election board chairmen urged each other to follow the “party line.” When one Republican chairman agreed to open a Sunday voting site where black voters could cast ballots after church, his fellow GOP chairmen called him a “traitor.” The transparency of these suppression efforts is staggering: On Sunday, the North Carolina GOP boasted that black early voting is down this year, when that fact is almost certainly attributable to Republicans’ own attack on black voting.Ultimately, North Carolina counties cut an astonishing 27 voting sites altogether this year and dramatically reduced early voting hours in many of the remaining sites. The result was entirely predictable: monstrously long lines that force voters—many of them elderly—to stand outside for hours upon hours just to cast a ballot.
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Deplorable.

 
LouisianaHusker said:
BigRedBuster said:
dudeguyy said:
Interesting.

I don't know that I'd consider this voter fraud, but if I was a Trump supporter it'd drive me up a friggin' wall.

U.S. voters look to game election system by 'trading' ballots

Sophy Warner wanted to vote for third-party U.S. presidential candidate Jill Stein. But she worried that her ballot, cast in the swing state of Ohio, might help Republican Donald Trump capture the White House.

Through the website "Trump Traders," the 20-year-old biology student at Cleveland State University got in touch with Marc Baluda, 44, a Republican corporate lawyer in California who opposes Trump's candidacy and planned to vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

The two strange bedfellows made a deal worthy of congressional horse-trading: Warner would vote for Clinton in Ohio, where polls show a tight race, while Baluda would cast a ballot for the Green Party candidate Stein in California, where Clinton is assured of winning the state's electoral votes.

Tens of thousands of voters, the vast majority seeking to prevent a Trump presidency, have signed up on "vote-swapping" exchanges in advance of Tuesday's Election Day. There is no way to verify the ballots are cast as agreed, though some people are taking "ballot selfies" in states where such photos are legal.

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Trump Traders had matched 40,000 voters as of Monday, according to co-founder John Stubbs. Although that may be a small fraction of the electorate, a few hundred votes could make a difference in a state where the race is close.
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That is interesting.
It would be pretty hard to say that is illegal or some how fraud. People are free to make whatever voting alliances they so choose.
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According to what you posted, one person one vote doesn't mean a God damned thing.
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How???

 
Don't know if this is fraud, but here is a facebook post of the mayor of Mansfeild, GA.

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That's arguably illegal, depending on state statutes. If it is, it would fall under something similar to election fraud.

 
I've heard that joke about a dozen times today, including a local radio show that's syndicated in several states. Tyler of Todd N Tyler fame said as they were going to commercial this morning that Democrats vote today, Republicans vote tomorrow. Made me uneasy even though it was pretty clear it was a joke.

 
Yes, I've seen it from both sides*. It's dangerously improper and should be criminal. Some people actually don't know, or would be swayed by it. Not everyone frankly has the luxury of being "in" on jokes of this nature.

This is a good example of when a joke is not a joke.

*I'd clarify that scale, type, and source seem to vary here. Or at least, they did when it started out. Shame on the so-called liberals who have latched onto imitation.

 
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knapplc said:
I've heard that joke about a dozen times today, including a local radio show that's syndicated in several states. Tyler of Todd N Tyler fame said as they were going to commercial this morning that Democrats vote today, Republicans vote tomorrow. Made me uneasy even though it was pretty clear it was a joke.
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i cracked a joke late last night in a status that i hear every election...

My election prediction. Democrats take early lead but it disappates in afternoon once republicans get off work.

 
Count 'Bility said:
knapplc said:
I've heard that joke about a dozen times today, including a local radio show that's syndicated in several states. Tyler of Todd N Tyler fame said as they were going to commercial this morning that Democrats vote today, Republicans vote tomorrow. Made me uneasy even though it was pretty clear it was a joke.
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i cracked a joke late last night in a status that i hear every election...

My election prediction. Democrats take early lead but it disappates in afternoon once republicans get off work.
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We live in the same town. Pretty sure voting locations have been busy all day. Heck, my voting location (E Free Church) was out of stickers by 10am. There must be more Democrats in good ole Hastings than I thought.

 
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