How to Steal an Election
http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly07102004.html
Informant: Friends
How to steal an election
by Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
09/16/04
A recent story that didn't get nearly the attention it deserved was the New York Daily News report that 46,000 registered New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida. Nearly 1,700 of them have had absentee ballots mailed to their home in the other state, and as many as 1,000 have voted twice in the same election. Can 1,000 fraudulent votes change an election? Well, George W. Bush won Florida in 2000 by just 537 votes. It is illegal to register to vote simultaneously in different jurisdictions, but scofflaws have little to worry about. As the Daily News noted, 'efforts to prevent people from registering and voting in more than one state rely mostly on the honor system.' Those who break the law rarely face prosecution or serious punishment. It's easy -- and painless -- to cheat...
http://tinyurl.com/4h47k
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Informant: Friends
How to steal an election
by Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
09/16/04
A recent story that didn't get nearly the attention it deserved was the New York Daily News report that 46,000 registered New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida. Nearly 1,700 of them have had absentee ballots mailed to their home in the other state, and as many as 1,000 have voted twice in the same election. Can 1,000 fraudulent votes change an election? Well, George W. Bush won Florida in 2000 by just 537 votes. It is illegal to register to vote simultaneously in different jurisdictions, but scofflaws have little to worry about. As the Daily News noted, 'efforts to prevent people from registering and voting in more than one state rely mostly on the honor system.' Those who break the law rarely face prosecution or serious punishment. It's easy -- and painless -- to cheat...
http://tinyurl.com/4h47k
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 31. Jul, 17:02
