I am new to the voting population. This will be my first year to vote. Growing up I have heard many stories of people voting under different names and for their dead relatives. To my understanding, when at the polls a person has to have their voter I.D. card and a picture I.D. So why is there so many cases of fraud? I feel that something should be done to prevent this. Maybe becoming registered to vote should be as extensive as getting your drivers licence. This article that I read talks about people who's information is not current and out of date. Something should be done about this matter.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_el_pr/scotus_voter_id;_ylt=AjdpdEAzY54fFLRbzXXE3kph24cA
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I have only voted in the last two elections and have not heard of a lot of voter fraud. Maybe they should have everybody's fingerprints on file and they'll scan us to make sure it's the right person. I guess a problem with that though is it would cost more money and they'd have to have trained man power at each voting precent.
If so much money were to go into voting I believe each vote should count more. Hence, boot out the Electoral College or whatever and let each vote officially count. This along with educating the public on such political matters, would improve our democracy.
Wow. I have never heard of voter fraud before. Why in the world would someone want to register to vote under their dead relative's name? If the government did not spend so much time in other countries' affairs, then maybe they would have enough time to fix the problems in our own country.
There is no valid scientific evidence to show that there is any significant voter fraud in the U.S. There are cases of it, but no evidence to show that it is widespread or that it has affected the outcome of any election.
>I have never heard of voter fraud before. Why in the world would someone want to register to vote under their dead relative's name?
They would want to do this so they could vote more than once. The evidence, though, shows that very few people get away with this, which is a federal felony.
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