# Bricker fooled me for too long

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 12, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835 "2012-11-12T22:46:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/262 "2012-11-15T18:15:46Z")

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> [@RaftPeople](#):
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> Can you provide a concrete example of this happening? Meaning unfair treatment of someone’s positive post about their position?
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> When I say “positive” post, I mean a post that makes a point about that person’s position that isn’t an attack on some other group.
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> An example of a post that isn’t an attack:  
> I think taxes should be lowered because that stimulates the economy.

Here:

> [@I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/3044):
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> By adducing evidence that the particular person was the one that actually voted. With no ID, the illegal voter can later simply deny he was the one casting the illegal ballot. (See Ramon Cue of Miami).

> [@I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/3046):
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> Drivel.
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> This has already been mentioned, but you have trouble forming long term memories when they rebut your bullshit beliefs. So allow me to repeat:
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> No one is going to be convicted when any defense attorney can say, “Poll Worker X, you checked in over a thousand people. Isn’t it true that you didn’t look very closely at each and every ID?” or “Do you have any training in spotting fake IDs?” or “Isn’t it possible that in the rush, someone with a fake ID fooled you?”

> [@I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/3049):
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> Would you care to explain the concept of _legal sufficiency of the evidence_, as you understand it applies to this situation?

> [@I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/3051):
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> Would you care to explain why I’m wrong, you fucking cumpig?

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