{"id":32532,"date":"2012-10-27T07:39:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32532"},"modified":"2012-10-27T07:43:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T11:43:31","slug":"so-theres-no-voter-fraud-in-america-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32532","title":{"rendered":"So . . . There\u2019s No Voter Fraud in America, Eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, then, explain the fact that former state Rep. Hudson Hallum, a Democrat from eastern Arkansas, and three others are awaiting sentencing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/10\/22\/arkansas-operatives-plead-guilty-in-vodka-for-votes-scam\/\">after pleading guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit election fraud<\/a>.\u00a0 He\u2019s now facing up to 5 years in Federal prison and a $250,000 fine.\u00a0 Five others were also charged and apparently are still awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme included buying votes outright, with cash or in-kind bribes; discussions of procuring discounted liquor with which to bribe prospective voters (not executed); illegally providing absentee ballots directly to voters; \u201chelping\u201d people to fill out absentee ballots; and outright destruction of absentee ballots cast for Hallum\u2019s opponent, Kim Felker.\u00a0 All of this is, obviously, illegal as hell.<\/p>\n<p>Did Hallum\u2019s and his co-conspirator\u2019s crimes change the outcome?\u00a0 I think it\u2019s safe to say, \u201cDamn right they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hallum had a majority of 394 votes to 67 in absentee votes alone in the election in question; no one knows how many votes he bought outright.\u00a0 <em>Hallum won the election by <strong>8<\/strong> votes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is one example of why it\u2019s not necessarily a good idea to bend over backwards to make voting too easy and convenient. In particular, allowing unrestricted voting-by-mail simply because it\u2019s \u201ceasy and convenient\u201d just might not be a good idea at all.<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0 Because everything you do to make voting more \u201cconvenient\u201d or \u201ceasier\u201d almost always presents an additional opportunity for vote fraud.\u00a0 And when there\u2019s an opportunity for fraud, sooner or later someone will attempt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, then, explain the fact that former state Rep. Hudson Hallum, a Democrat from eastern Arkansas, &hellip; <a title=\"So . . . There\u2019s No Voter Fraud in America, Eh?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32532\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So . . . There\u2019s No Voter Fraud in America, Eh?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}