# Voter fraud and tampering **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 23, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-fraud-and-tampering/547753 "2010-07-23T19:07:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-fraud-and-tampering/547753/41 "2010-09-03T19:20:13Z")
It’s an epidemic! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-fraud-and-tampering/547753/42 "2010-09-25T00:16:18Z")
And Madagascar voted to close the ports! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-fraud-and-tampering/547753/43 "2010-09-26T16:04:28Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > > [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > > > Do you have some kind of proof for that? I’d assume that voter fraud is pretty sparse as well, but I don’t know one way or another. There is that “Vote early, vote often” saying that pops up in Chicago politics, though. > > The number of cases that have gone to court, let alone result in convictions, is ridiculously small. From 2002 to 2005, the Bush Justice Department made enforcing laws against voter fraud a top priority. It resulted in a total of 38 cases, 14 of which were either dismissed or found not guilty. That’s 24 cases in three years, when the Justice Department was going out of its way to prosecute. Not exactly a crime wave. > > Of the 38, the Justice Department found only two cases where the fraud occurred during a minority registration drive, their main target. Good to know. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-fraud-and-tampering/547753/44 "2010-09-26T16:12:38Z")
[Wisconsin Progressive Group Alleges Joint GOP And Tea Party Voter Fraud Conspiracy](http://www.mediaite.com/online/progresssive-group-alleges-gop-and-tea-party-effort-to-suppress-wisconsin-vote/) > [@](#): > > A coordinated plot by the Republican Party of Wisconsin, Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin and organizations in the so-called Tea Party movement targeting minority voters and college students in a possibly illegal “voter caging” effort for voter suppression has been uncovered in evidence obtained by One Wisconsin Now, a statewide advocacy organization in Madison, Wisconsin. > > “Based on what we have heard, the Republican Party of Wisconsin, the Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin and leading Tea Party organizations are in collusion in an effort to suppress the ability of minorities and university students in Wisconsin to exercise their right to vote this November,” said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now Executive Director. “We will be providing all of the evidence we have received on this wrongdoing to federal and state authorities so that they can investigate to ensure justice and democracy prevail.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-fraud-and-tampering/547753/45 "2010-09-26T17:03:26Z")
Well, we should distinguish between cases of imaginary voters who cast ballots and real voters who are blocked from casting ballots. I suspect the latter cases are far more widespread and represent a more serious problem/failing of democracy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-fraud-and-tampering/547753.md?page=2)