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		<title>By: SomeGuyNamedMark</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1564664</link>
		<dc:creator>SomeGuyNamedMark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> A voting reality show?  

&quot;New Jersey Polls&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> A voting reality show?  </p>
<p>&#8220;New Jersey Polls&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: karl_jones</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1564422</link>
		<dc:creator>karl_jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Could be worse.  
Poor foreigners could pool their funds to buy the votes of poor Americans.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Could be worse.  <br />
Poor foreigners could pool their funds to buy the votes of poor Americans.</p>
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		<title>By: VentureFree</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1564082</link>
		<dc:creator>VentureFree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t you see? You have it backwards. People who already have a lot of money aren&#039;t as susceptible to bribery because they don&#039;t need the money. It&#039;s poor people that really need the extra cash who are most likely to be bribed. I say anybody with a net worth of less than, say, $1,000,000 is not allowed to vote. We must be sure that rich foreigners aren&#039;t buying poor people&#039;s votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t you see? You have it backwards. People who already have a lot of money aren&#8217;t as susceptible to bribery because they don&#8217;t need the money. It&#8217;s poor people that really need the extra cash who are most likely to be bribed. I say anybody with a net worth of less than, say, $1,000,000 is not allowed to vote. We must be sure that rich foreigners aren&#8217;t buying poor people&#8217;s votes.</p>
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		<title>By: VentureFree</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1564079</link>
		<dc:creator>VentureFree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for linking to this article proving that voter fraud is rampant. The fact that the authors find absolutely no evidence of voter fraud is easily the best proof that the conspiracy to commit voter fraud is working perfectly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for linking to this article proving that voter fraud is rampant. The fact that the authors find absolutely no evidence of voter fraud is easily the best proof that the conspiracy to commit voter fraud is working perfectly.</p>
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		<title>By: class_enemy</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563884</link>
		<dc:creator>class_enemy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;walking up to the poll box repeatedly and marking down a vote&lt;/i&gt;

Agreed, but that&#039;s increasingly a back-in-the-day scenario.

The more absentee ballots, the more e-voting, the more everything other than going to the polls on election day, the more conceivable both kinds of fraud become.

Me for the old fashioned voting machine, as big as a walk in freezer, and voting from 7 AM - 7 PM on one day only, in person.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>walking up to the poll box repeatedly and marking down a vote</i></p>
<p>Agreed, but that&#8217;s increasingly a back-in-the-day scenario.</p>
<p>The more absentee ballots, the more e-voting, the more everything other than going to the polls on election day, the more conceivable both kinds of fraud become.</p>
<p>Me for the old fashioned voting machine, as big as a walk in freezer, and voting from 7 AM &#8211; 7 PM on one day only, in person.</p>
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		<title>By: class_enemy</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563875</link>
		<dc:creator>class_enemy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> Then we need even more enticing reality shows, broadcast 24-7 from the start of early voting till the hour the polls close.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Then we need even more enticing reality shows, broadcast 24-7 from the start of early voting till the hour the polls close.</p>
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		<title>By: Wade</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563819</link>
		<dc:creator>Wade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amazing timing of this post. Last night I was doing a toastmasters speech about how political consultants effectively control enough votes to deprive us of democracy.  In one sense, I think campaign consultants really are the biggest voter fraud we face. Technically not fraud as expressed in this article but fraud in its effect. If anyone wants to click through my slides I have them posted. Still have a couple of layout errors to fix and I intend to add more references. Need to make a few extra clicks for the transitions that didn&#039;t make it tho HTML.  I think I read the original NewYorker article that inspired this from a link on Boing Boing. Thanks and keep up the good work!

http://wadebrezina.com/2012draft/assets/fallback/index.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazing timing of this post. Last night I was doing a toastmasters speech about how political consultants effectively control enough votes to deprive us of democracy.  In one sense, I think campaign consultants really are the biggest voter fraud we face. Technically not fraud as expressed in this article but fraud in its effect. If anyone wants to click through my slides I have them posted. Still have a couple of layout errors to fix and I intend to add more references. Need to make a few extra clicks for the transitions that didn&#8217;t make it tho HTML.  I think I read the original NewYorker article that inspired this from a link on Boing Boing. Thanks and keep up the good work!</p>
<p><a href="http://wadebrezina.com/2012draft/assets/fallback/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://wadebrezina.com/2012draft/assets/fallback/index.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Antinous / Moderator</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563633</link>
		<dc:creator>Antinous / Moderator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those are the people who do vote.</description>
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		<title>By: Navin_Johnson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Navin_Johnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> Where is your evidence of this existing and having any kind of effect on elections?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Where is your evidence of this existing and having any kind of effect on elections?</p>
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		<title>By: chris jimson</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563470</link>
		<dc:creator>chris jimson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The problem with this particular idea of voter fraud (the concept that people are going to show up at the voting booth and vote under multiple aliases) is that it&#039;s not efficient, in fact it is completely asinine if you want to sway an election.  Think of the number of people you would need to mobilize, have them stand in lines all day at different voting locations (you couldn&#039;t really expect to vote over and over at the same place and not be recognized) to get enough votes to change the course of an election.  Unsurprisingly, the GOP does not show interest in voter fraud caused by hacking voting machines, or by partisan election officials destroying ballots, both tactics that are far more efficient and documented.  

Now, if the argument is that migrant workers or felons are voting, I wonder how many of them would chance voting if it meant getting in legal trouble-- it&#039;s hard enough to get out the vote already, with only about a 3rd of the US population bothering to show up on election day-- why would I expect a huge number of felons or migrants to put in a stronger effort?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem with this particular idea of voter fraud (the concept that people are going to show up at the voting booth and vote under multiple aliases) is that it&#8217;s not efficient, in fact it is completely asinine if you want to sway an election.  Think of the number of people you would need to mobilize, have them stand in lines all day at different voting locations (you couldn&#8217;t really expect to vote over and over at the same place and not be recognized) to get enough votes to change the course of an election.  Unsurprisingly, the GOP does not show interest in voter fraud caused by hacking voting machines, or by partisan election officials destroying ballots, both tactics that are far more efficient and documented.  </p>
<p>Now, if the argument is that migrant workers or felons are voting, I wonder how many of them would chance voting if it meant getting in legal trouble&#8211; it&#8217;s hard enough to get out the vote already, with only about a 3rd of the US population bothering to show up on election day&#8211; why would I expect a huge number of felons or migrants to put in a stronger effort?</p>
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		<title>By: nemomen</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563462</link>
		<dc:creator>nemomen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you don&#039;t have a Photo ID then you don&#039;t have a car.  Potentially having to take time off to get an ID, getting to a place that issues the IDs, and so on can still cost even if the ID is granted without a fee (which is uncommon).  Forcing the elderly, poor, and students to go through that process to be able to vote is putting up an unnecessary hurdle to make it harder for targeted segments of the population to vote, as with other Jim Crow laws.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you don&#8217;t have a Photo ID then you don&#8217;t have a car.  Potentially having to take time off to get an ID, getting to a place that issues the IDs, and so on can still cost even if the ID is granted without a fee (which is uncommon).  Forcing the elderly, poor, and students to go through that process to be able to vote is putting up an unnecessary hurdle to make it harder for targeted segments of the population to vote, as with other Jim Crow laws.</p>
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		<title>By: Bob Warfield</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563440</link>
		<dc:creator>Bob Warfield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re looking in the wrong place.  It&#039;s not someone voting in another person&#039;s name.  It&#039;s about people being registered to vote are not allowed to, like convicted felons or migrant workers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re looking in the wrong place.  It&#8217;s not someone voting in another person&#8217;s name.  It&#8217;s about people being registered to vote are not allowed to, like convicted felons or migrant workers.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why is nobody talking about the real voter fraud problem... people being bribed to vote a certain way... by FOREIGN INTERESTS, possibly even FOREIGN TERRORISTS!  That&#039;s right, every year, up to millions of votes are possibly corrupted in this way!   They receive huge payments from these foreign interests in the days leading up to the election.  They&#039;re probably cleverly filtered through subsidiary companies so as to not arise suspicion

That&#039;s why I promote the new &quot;voter bribery prevention act.&quot; 

Anybody who makes more than $10,000 in the month leading up to an election is not allowed to vote.  We must be sure this foreign money isn&#039;t some filthy rich terrorist buying their vote.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is nobody talking about the real voter fraud problem&#8230; people being bribed to vote a certain way&#8230; by FOREIGN INTERESTS, possibly even FOREIGN TERRORISTS!  That&#8217;s right, every year, up to millions of votes are possibly corrupted in this way!   They receive huge payments from these foreign interests in the days leading up to the election.  They&#8217;re probably cleverly filtered through subsidiary companies so as to not arise suspicion</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I promote the new &#8220;voter bribery prevention act.&#8221; </p>
<p>Anybody who makes more than $10,000 in the month leading up to an election is not allowed to vote.  We must be sure this foreign money isn&#8217;t some filthy rich terrorist buying their vote.</p>
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		<title>By: blearghhh</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563310</link>
		<dc:creator>blearghhh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I REFUSE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY WHEN PEOPLE DO NOT USE THE SARCASM TAG.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I REFUSE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY WHEN PEOPLE DO NOT USE THE SARCASM TAG.</p>
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		<title>By: Marja Erwin</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563306</link>
		<dc:creator>Marja Erwin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The poor and working folks in Rome started calling themselves plebians when they started resisting the plutes of their day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The poor and working folks in Rome started calling themselves plebians when they started resisting the plutes of their day.</p>
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		<title>By: graywh</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563299</link>
		<dc:creator>graywh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They are in Tennessee.</description>
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		<title>By: IronEdithKidd</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563294</link>
		<dc:creator>IronEdithKidd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s adorable that you think I haven&#039;t been paying attention.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s adorable that you think I haven&#8217;t been paying attention.</p>
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		<title>By: acerplatanoides</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563260</link>
		<dc:creator>acerplatanoides</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since 1999 the conservative ground game has been to shamelessly attack every single progressive gain (everything that costs the owners their money) since the time of Jefferson, attack them simultaneously, and whether the players believe in the mission or not. They tried to legalize DDT for chrissakes. I think it&#039;s to take up our time so we can&#039;t fight for more progress. But you know what? We can!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since 1999 the conservative ground game has been to shamelessly attack every single progressive gain (everything that costs the owners their money) since the time of Jefferson, attack them simultaneously, and whether the players believe in the mission or not. They tried to legalize DDT for chrissakes. I think it&#8217;s to take up our time so we can&#8217;t fight for more progress. But you know what? We can!</p>
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		<title>By: Jerril</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jerril</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In countries with even worse electoral systems than the US, you can also add theft and destruction of ballot boxes from districts likely to vote against your candidate, by armed hijackers if necessary, along with armed thugs posted outside polling stations. The US seems to have still managed to keep its head above that level, but as an outside observer, that&#039;s still a terribly low standard.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In countries with even worse electoral systems than the US, you can also add theft and destruction of ballot boxes from districts likely to vote against your candidate, by armed hijackers if necessary, along with armed thugs posted outside polling stations. The US seems to have still managed to keep its head above that level, but as an outside observer, that&#8217;s still a terribly low standard.</p>
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		<title>By: blearghhh</title>
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		<dc:creator>blearghhh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nope.  It&#039;s a solution to a very real problem, just not the one the people who enact the legislation tell you it&#039;s solving.

To be clearer, it&#039;s solving the problem that demographics are shifting away from the Republicans, and it would help the cause if less of the people who traditionally voted Democrat were eligible to vote in the first place. It&#039;s very effective in that respect.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nope.  It&#8217;s a solution to a very real problem, just not the one the people who enact the legislation tell you it&#8217;s solving.</p>
<p>To be clearer, it&#8217;s solving the problem that demographics are shifting away from the Republicans, and it would help the cause if less of the people who traditionally voted Democrat were eligible to vote in the first place. It&#8217;s very effective in that respect.</p>
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		<title>By: Jerril</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563255</link>
		<dc:creator>Jerril</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> Yes, exactly my point to @dolo54, very well phrased.</description>
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		<title>By: IronEdithKidd</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563250</link>
		<dc:creator>IronEdithKidd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Like much of the legislation spewed forth by ALEC, voter ID is a solution in search of a problem.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like much of the legislation spewed forth by ALEC, voter ID is a solution in search of a problem.  </p>
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		<title>By: Jerril</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563252</link>
		<dc:creator>Jerril</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> That&#039;s not &quot;Voter Fraud&quot;. That&#039;s &quot;Election Fraud&quot;. Those are two entirely different things, and if you continue confusing the issue for the Republicans like that, then you are fighting for them.

Voter Fraud is walking up to the poll box repeatedly and marking down a vote with your own hand repeatedly - one man, many votes, via the rather quaintly old-fashioned process of doing it by hand. You can see why this just isn&#039;t a big problem these days: labour intensive, slow, inefficient, difficult to outsource ;)

You&#039;re talking about Election Fraud, which is a broader topic and covers things like ballet-box stuffing (done in the back room by election staff), rigging of voting machines (by the manufacturer, by election staff, by crackers, whatever), or out-and-out bald-faced lying about what the results were from your station (harder to do these days than it used to be).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> That&#8217;s not &#8220;Voter Fraud&#8221;. That&#8217;s &#8220;Election Fraud&#8221;. Those are two entirely different things, and if you continue confusing the issue for the Republicans like that, then you are fighting for them.</p>
<p>Voter Fraud is walking up to the poll box repeatedly and marking down a vote with your own hand repeatedly &#8211; one man, many votes, via the rather quaintly old-fashioned process of doing it by hand. You can see why this just isn&#8217;t a big problem these days: labour intensive, slow, inefficient, difficult to outsource ;)</p>
<p>You&#8217;re talking about Election Fraud, which is a broader topic and covers things like ballet-box stuffing (done in the back room by election staff), rigging of voting machines (by the manufacturer, by election staff, by crackers, whatever), or out-and-out bald-faced lying about what the results were from your station (harder to do these days than it used to be).</p>
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		<title>By: Boris Bartlog</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563245</link>
		<dc:creator>Boris Bartlog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Simple economics suggests that voter fraud by way of individual voter impersonation would be vanishingly rare. The cost of recruiting someone to go to the trouble would be far greater than the cost of get-out-the-vote efforts needed to bring one more marginal voter to the polls. I would expect any actual cases of such fraud to be either the result of confusion or else just someone&#039;s personal desire to do mischief. Any actual attempts to manipulate election outcomes would surely use more efficient means, whether legitimate (ads, GOTV) or not (voter suppression, machine count rigging etc.).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simple economics suggests that voter fraud by way of individual voter impersonation would be vanishingly rare. The cost of recruiting someone to go to the trouble would be far greater than the cost of get-out-the-vote efforts needed to bring one more marginal voter to the polls. I would expect any actual cases of such fraud to be either the result of confusion or else just someone&#8217;s personal desire to do mischief. Any actual attempts to manipulate election outcomes would surely use more efficient means, whether legitimate (ads, GOTV) or not (voter suppression, machine count rigging etc.).</p>
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		<title>By: acerplatanoides</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563222</link>
		<dc:creator>acerplatanoides</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>America has no shortage of people ATTRACTED to cognitive dissonance. 

A bunch of bullied plebes desperate to be told what to do by yet another perfect bully. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>America has no shortage of people ATTRACTED to cognitive dissonance. </p>
<p>A bunch of bullied plebes desperate to be told what to do by yet another perfect bully. </p>
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		<title>By: ComradeQuestions</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563206</link>
		<dc:creator>ComradeQuestions</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;...and visible minorities.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Oh shit, there are &lt;i&gt;invisible&lt;/i&gt; minorities still able to commit voter fraud?  Quick!  Somebody call James O&#039;Keefe!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8230;and visible minorities.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh shit, there are <i>invisible</i> minorities still able to commit voter fraud?  Quick!  Somebody call James O&#8217;Keefe!</p>
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		<title>By: class_enemy</title>
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		<dc:creator>class_enemy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> There are millions out there who can&#039;t drag themselves away from Judge Judy, Honey Boo Boo and American Idol long enough to get registered and vote.

If those people continue not voting, frankly I think the country is the better for it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> There are millions out there who can&#8217;t drag themselves away from Judge Judy, Honey Boo Boo and American Idol long enough to get registered and vote.</p>
<p>If those people continue not voting, frankly I think the country is the better for it.</p>
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		<title>By: Brad Bell</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563198</link>
		<dc:creator>Brad Bell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you want to know more, BBC reporter Greg Pallast is an expert on election fraud.
http://www.gregpalast.com/ballotbandits/

Personally, I think voter fraud is the perfect cover for election fraud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to know more, BBC reporter Greg Pallast is an expert on election fraud.<br />
<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/ballotbandits/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gregpalast.com/ballotbandits/</a></p>
<p>Personally, I think voter fraud is the perfect cover for election fraud.</p>
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		<title>By: FoolishOwl</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/voter-fraud-is-a-fraud.html#comment-1563191</link>
		<dc:creator>FoolishOwl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As in, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13221476-romney-family-buys-voting-machines-through-bain-capital-investment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Romney&#039;s family just bought the voting machines used in five states&lt;/a&gt;.

In any sort of just system, this should mean Romney is disqualified. Of course, it&#039;s hard to imagine a just system that would permit private ownership of voting machines, anyway. I strongly doubt that the Democrats will utter a word of official protest, however; they would rather lose the election than rock the boat, or worse, win by too large a margin and actually have to deal with questions about why they never enact progressive policies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As in, <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13221476-romney-family-buys-voting-machines-through-bain-capital-investment" rel="nofollow">Romney&#8217;s family just bought the voting machines used in five states</a>.</p>
<p>In any sort of just system, this should mean Romney is disqualified. Of course, it&#8217;s hard to imagine a just system that would permit private ownership of voting machines, anyway. I strongly doubt that the Democrats will utter a word of official protest, however; they would rather lose the election than rock the boat, or worse, win by too large a margin and actually have to deal with questions about why they never enact progressive policies.</p>
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		<title>By: dolo54</title>
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		<dc:creator>dolo54</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Voter fraud is real enough, remember when Diebold elected GWB? Remember when Jeb Bush promised GW would get Florida and the hanging of the chads? Now there&#039;s this http://truth-out.org/news/item/12204-does-the-romney-family-now-own-your-e-vote</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Voter fraud is real enough, remember when Diebold elected GWB? Remember when Jeb Bush promised GW would get Florida and the hanging of the chads? Now there&#8217;s this http://truth-out.org/news/item/12204-does-the-romney-family-now-own-your-e-vote</p>
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