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A lot of this talk about illegal voting is just talk about something that is very hypothetical. It might happen but it doesn't happen very often and with folks looking over each others shoulders irregularities get caught before they get out of hand.
Yes, I guess folks should check citizenship when they are first registered to vote. Is an oath swearing that one is a citizen enough to believe that one is a citizen for voting?
I have personally registered many people to vote in Florida in years past. The registration form only required the oath that they were a citizen, lived in Florida and eligible to vote in Florida. Naturalized citizen often brought their naturalization certificate and were proud to have become citizens. This happened during the 1970's. When voting, if your name was on the voting roles you were able to vote and signed another oath about your continued eligibility to vote. This was in the days before picture ids were required in Florida.
Roles of eligible voters are ok, in that almost all of the folks on the lists live where they live the last time they voted and are the same people who registered at that address, changes in addresses are recorded. If you go to the polling place and vote you will stay on the rolls. There are always issues when voting rolls are purged of people who have not voted for more than four years. Folks that move around often may end up on the wrong list if they never changed their address or on two or more lists if they were conscientious regarding registering and the original jurisdiction never got around to cancelling the other registration.
Absentee ballots can be abused but usually signatures are checked and I guess if you were registered in two different precincts you might be able to vote twice but it could be caught easily and if the two precincts were in different states or counties you might be able to commit voter fraud.
I'm almost positive Donald Trump's daughter did not vote more than once in November and I am also as positive that Donald Trump did not lose the popular vote because illegal aliens voted or that the State of California allowed wide spread voter fraud by individuals.
It would also seem that any national legislation about voting rights and procedures would not be as popular as imagined because it might impact "state's rights" and jurisdictions power to gerrymander as well.
And so it goes
Yes, I guess folks should check citizenship when they are first registered to vote. Is an oath swearing that one is a citizen enough to believe that one is a citizen for voting?
I have personally registered many people to vote in Florida in years past. The registration form only required the oath that they were a citizen, lived in Florida and eligible to vote in Florida. Naturalized citizen often brought their naturalization certificate and were proud to have become citizens. This happened during the 1970's. When voting, if your name was on the voting roles you were able to vote and signed another oath about your continued eligibility to vote. This was in the days before picture ids were required in Florida.
Roles of eligible voters are ok, in that almost all of the folks on the lists live where they live the last time they voted and are the same people who registered at that address, changes in addresses are recorded. If you go to the polling place and vote you will stay on the rolls. There are always issues when voting rolls are purged of people who have not voted for more than four years. Folks that move around often may end up on the wrong list if they never changed their address or on two or more lists if they were conscientious regarding registering and the original jurisdiction never got around to cancelling the other registration.
Absentee ballots can be abused but usually signatures are checked and I guess if you were registered in two different precincts you might be able to vote twice but it could be caught easily and if the two precincts were in different states or counties you might be able to commit voter fraud.
I'm almost positive Donald Trump's daughter did not vote more than once in November and I am also as positive that Donald Trump did not lose the popular vote because illegal aliens voted or that the State of California allowed wide spread voter fraud by individuals.
It would also seem that any national legislation about voting rights and procedures would not be as popular as imagined because it might impact "state's rights" and jurisdictions power to gerrymander as well.
And so it goes
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