Voter Fraud Case Study

In John Fund’s reflection, the Department of Investigation went through a procedure to see how easy it was to commit voter fraud. The DOI had sent out agents to show up at 63 polling places all who “pretended to be voters who should have been turned away by election officials; the agents assumed names of individuals who had died or moved out of town, or who were sitting in jail. 61 instances, or 97 percent of the time, the testers were allowed to vote.” (Fund, pg 353) After gathering this evidence that voter fraud was possible and way easier than it seemed, they published a report which accused the city’s Board of Elections voting

The case of Rita Crundwell revolves around a town, other employees, and an auditor 's blind trust in a women, who clearly did not deserve the trust. Crundwell was the town Comptroller. The fraud resulted in 53 million dollars to be siphoned from the town 's funds in a time frame of 20 years. Crundwell covered her tracks with a fake bank account, fake invoices, and the party line of blaming the state for simply being behind on payments. There were many red flags during the two decades of this scheme, but due to the town 's small size and trusting attitude, they relied heavily on external audits, which were not up to par.

Voter ID laws in the United States have begun to create controversy since the beginning of its adaptations in the early 2000’s. Voter ID laws in the United States is a law that requires U.S. citizens to have a special form of identification in order to vote in an election. The idea with Voter ID laws is that the state must make sure that the laws do not pose any sort of burden on the voters. These laws have been proposed in order to stop voting fraud. However, the institution of Voter ID laws have made trouble in states, including Texas, regarding to the various amount of identification requirements needed.

The main intent is to protect individuals against misuse or abuse of information about them.”

Republican proponents claim that voter identification laws do not discourage those who are most likely to vote from turning out to the polls. They also believe voter identification laws are vitally essential to discourage voter fraud and to strengthen public trust in the electoral system (Gerken 40). Looking closer at both sides of this continuing controversy will help to clarify each sides claims and reveal any misinformation.

Volume three’s focus is the abuse of the IRS that happened during Nixon’s presidency. That includes the misuse of tax information and passing it to the FBI. The IRS had a special service staff whose job was to target such individuals and groups for investigation. There were 8000 individuals and 3000 organizations on the SSS list. That included the American civil liberties union, and the American library association. The witnesses included were the Commissioner of the IRS, Donald Alexander, and by counsel and several assistant

On September 9, 2014, three individuals voted in the New Hampshire Republican primary election. Leon Rideout, a candidate for the New Hampshire House of Representatives, proudly photographed his ballot, indicating that he had voted for himself, and posted it to twitter. Brandon Ross, another candidate for a place in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, also took a picture of his marked ballot, a memento he would post as a challenge to Attorney General’s Office. Finally, Andrew Langlois, a New Hampshire voter, posted a picture of his vote, in which he demonstrated his distaste for the Republican field by writing in the name of his deceased dog. Each individual was promptly informed that he was being investigated for posting a picture of his ballot on social media, a violation of New Hampshire’s recent amendment to section 359:35, I of the New Hampshire Revised Statutes, “prohibition shall include taking a digital image or photograph of his or her marked ballot and distributing or sharing the image via social media or by any other means” (RSN § 359:35, I). Violating the statute could result in a fine of up to $1,000 (Hannon). As a result, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the state of New Hampshire on behalf of the three plaintiffs described above. New Hampshire claims that the new law helps to maintain voter integrity by preventing vote buying or voter coercion. The ACLU, however, looks upon the new legislation as a clear restriction on

WOOSTER — The Wayne County Board of Elections will continue to be part of an appeal involving the Secretary of State’s office and a Wooster man’s bid to be an independent candidate for state representative in November.

That year, we had a highly disputed presidential election. Following its outcome, the United States Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, which ushered in comprehensive election reform. Under the law, states are required to follow mandatory minimum standards that included implementing new programs and procedures such as provisional voting; voting information and voter education; upgraded, tested and certified voting technology; statewide voter registration list; voter identification procedures; and an improved election administration system ("Help America Vote Act"). The Commission on Federal Election Reform advocated similar propositions in their 2005 report (69-70).

Hello, I am an elite detective named Buca from a company called Bucas organization. I and a team of researchers are going to use a time machine to travel back in time to the 3 days before Poe died in 1849. It was a sunny October 4th in 1849 with stone streets and horses carried man and conveniently I had appeared at the exact location where Poe was being used for a voter fraud called coping, and what a saw was mind-blowing. My theory from the beginning was that Poe died of coping and an overdose of alcohol which the gang who kidnapped him were giving it costly based on the events I saw I wrote a book called what really happened to Poe.

In this case in 2000, officials truly tried their best to make each vote count by closely examining the cards, but several just had to be thrown out.

But, as of today there is no solid way of knowing if someone is or is not trying to sneak in more than one ballot. “I don’t know if anybody knows how prevalent it is, because the only time you find out is when somebody gets caught.” (Guzman, 1) And the statistics of that happening is .00000013 percent or 26 out of every 197 million cases. Because there are multiple techniques that can and have been used time after time again. Although this is the case there has been some attempt to prevent it. Voter ID law are one example, but it is far from the perfect solution. First, it prevents only one type of voter’s fraud, voter impersonation. And, second, the voter’s ID laws has been ruled as discrimination; so the rule is not enforced everywhere and the public can vote without

If accurate voter rolls aren’t incentive, then maybe cost saving is. Since regulations very state to state, it is hard to assess national cost. Considering money is a motivating factor to change, a case study for registration cost was done using Oregon as the test subject. Pew considered every level of registration. Beginning locally, it determined printing and postage, staff salaries, and facilities. Additionally, the Secretary of State incurs expenses related to maintain the voter rolls, providing and distributing registration forms, training and assisting agencies involved with voter registration, and manning the toll-free call center for public questions regarding registration. All totaled, Oregon spent almost nine million dollars registering voters for the 2008 election, that’s $4.11 per active registered voter or $7.67 per registration transaction (Pew). Compare that cost to Canada, who maintains their voter roll using automatic registration, with just 35 cents per active voter (Pew). That is a significant cost savings.

Please, consider when Wiki Leaks revealed confidential information about Democratic Party donors. As citizens, we must safeguard this information against fraudulent acts such as identity theft. Also, keeping our addresses private from others increases our safety from those who may want to harm us. Lastly, Wiki Leaks reveals sensitive information that can possible land in the hands of our country’s enemies placing all citizens in harm’s way.

Besides that, there were complaints about the use of indelible ink in the 13th general Election. Oppositions and clean-polls activists reported that the ink could be easily washed off (Election ink under scrutiny in Malaysia, 2013). To avoid the issue of phantom voters and to reduce human error when checking the voter’s information during the election a new modern polling