What do you think a fraudulent ballot is? You can't just make a person up; there are voter rolls. Whatever means you find of coming up with a name and address that will be accepted as a vote, you have to do it (here, hypothetically) 16,000 times. If you use real people's names, which you have to because, again, voter rolls, many of them have already shown up to vote. The epollbook shows that on the screen, and you're standing there being asked for ID by a suspicious poll worker. Meanwhile, you would need thousands of coconspirators, and count on none of them ever leaking. You face the prison sentence to end all prison sentences (we put someone in prison in TX for years for casting an invalid vote accidentally) and, if you pull it off, you have... a chance? of altering the outcome if the election is very close?
There's a reason this just doesn't happen, and it's because it doesn't make sense. As a prediction: America is not going to spend a lot of time and energy making you feel safer about it.
My advice to you is, next cycle, sign up as a pollworker. It's so much more of a shitshow than you can possibly imagine, but I came away from it feeling paradoxically better about the process.
It's unfortunate that people will simply not listen to reason. You have gone above and beyond explaining the realities of mass voter fraud, but it goes against the outcome people are searching so they ignore you. You have more patience than I have.
> It's so much more of a shitshow than you can possibly imagine, but I came away from it feeling paradoxically better about the process.
This is the first time I really dug into the process, and I agree. I voted absentee, and that process plus what I saw on TV around the counting process made me much more confident in how things work.
> The epollbook shows that on the screen, and you're standing there being asked for ID by a suspicious poll worker. Meanwhile, you would need thousands of coconspirators, and count on none of them ever leaking.
You're talking about someone showing up at the polls to commit voter fraud in person, when the contention here is primarily about mail-in ballots.
If someone has access to the voter rolls from the previous election, how do you detect if they've submitted mail-in ballots for people who were registered but didn't vote last time, on the theory that most of them still won't? Or who registers new people without their request and then submits ballots in their names? That entire process would be taking place outside of the polling location.
There's a reason this just doesn't happen, and it's because it doesn't make sense. As a prediction: America is not going to spend a lot of time and energy making you feel safer about it.
My advice to you is, next cycle, sign up as a pollworker. It's so much more of a shitshow than you can possibly imagine, but I came away from it feeling paradoxically better about the process.