{"id":75739,"date":"2020-11-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75739"},"modified":"2020-11-01T09:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:24:31","slug":"fraud-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75739","title":{"rendered":"Fraud Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

I have been confidently assured there is no ballot fraud.\u00a0 I’m dubious.<\/p>

The Minnesota Supreme Court issued an opinion in DSCC v. Simon, court
file A20-1017.\u00a0 It’s eye-opening.<\/p>

Minnesota law has long allowed a voter to have someone help them mark
their ballot.\u00a0 It’s historically been used by the blind or disabled,
given by a friend or family member, and done inside the polling booth.\u00a0
The opportunity for fraud or mistake exists, but it’s a single vote.\u00a0
The law allows one person to help no more than three voters.<\/p>

The Democrat party asserted they had the right under federal law to
“help” an unlimited number of voters mark their ballots off-site, and
then to deliver all those marked ballots to the polling place.\u00a0
Democrats asserted the Minnesota law that allows one person to “help” no
more than 3 voters, and to deliver the ballots of no more than 3 voters,
was a violation of federal voting rights law.<\/p>

The Secretary of State disagreed (amazingly).\u00a0 The Republican party
joined the suit to object. The trial court agreed with the Democrats and
issued a temporary order allowing the practice.\u00a0 The Supreme Court
disagreed, slightly.<\/p>

Democrats can “help” an unlimited number of people mark their ballots,
but no one person can deliver more than three of the marked ballots to
the polling place.\u00a0 No more bringing in boxes full of marked ballots
from the trunk of your car.\u00a0 Instead, Democrats must recruit more
runners to deliver all the marked ballots.<\/p>

It’s probably just me, but if I were of a mind to cheat the vote, I
could think of a way to do it under this system.\u00a0 Able marks hundreds of
ballots in the names of blind, disabled, elderly, dead, and non-English
speaking voters.\u00a0 Baker, Charlie, David, Emily, Frank and many more,
earn a few bucks delivering three ballots to each of Ramsey, Hennepin,
Dakota, Carver, Wright, Sherburne, Anoka, Isanti and Washington
counties.\u00a0 Better still, they earn no money, they get class
participation credit for their college Political Science course.\u00a0 The
odds of counties comparing names is nil.\u00a0 Multiply by 86 counties and
the chance to influence the results is . . . significant.<\/p>

Good thing there is no ballot fraud.<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Strap in. This next two months may well make us pine for the good times back in 2000. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been confidently assured there is no ballot fraud.\u00a0 I’m dubious. The Minnesota Supreme Court issued an opinion in DSCC v. Simon, courtfile A20-1017.\u00a0 It’s eye-opening. Minnesota law has long allowed a voter to have someone help them marktheir ballot.\u00a0 It’s historically been used by the blind or disabled,given by a friend or family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75740,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75739\/revisions\/75740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}