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getagrip_already

(14,250 posts)
4. I wonder...
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 09:07 AM
Nov 2018

So apparently what happened in this county is people went door to door telling residents they had been taken off the voter roles and they needed to re-register to vote. The canvasser would offer them the official forms to both register to vote and request an absentee ballot. They would then file the paperwork on behalf of the voter.

As long as the absentee blallots were filled out and returned by the voters, this mat amount to fraud and illegal acts on the part of the canxassers, but the voters wouldn't have violated any election law and the votes would be valid.

It's an interesting (but potentially illegal) way to increase turnout among unlikely voters. It would be like us targeting highly progressive residents who haven't recently, and walking them through the process to register and vote absentee. Legal up to a point.

Where it gets into election violations is if the canvassers returned to the voters to inquire if they had returned them yet, and offered to help them vote and then turn in the ballots. If the canvasser either filled in the ballot or threw out ballots they knew to be for their opponent, it's election fraud. If they lied to the voter to get them to sign the forms, it's still fraud, but may not violate election voting ;laws.

Smells to high hell though.

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