Is this Voter Fraud in The Bronx?

[herrjimbo]

Here, I will make my vote public to make you feel better. I voted for Mitt Romney. There, my vote is public too. Feel better now?

that is your choice. my choice is: it's no ones business but my own who i vote for.

stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

 

[SagaLore]

That's it. 5-10 minutes max. I spent an insane amount of time to vote this year, just for my right to an anonymous vote to be thrown in the trash? Something is VERY wrong this year.

Woah woah woah - when did we start having a right to an anonymous vote? Is this some new amendment I missed?

 

[herrjimbo]

Woah woah woah - when did we start having a right to an anonymous vote? Is this some new amendment I missed?

really? why do you think they say YOU put the card in the machine? it's because of your right to vote who you wish to vote for, without anyone knowing. it's ALWAYS been anonymous.

i really hope my sarcasm meter is broken.

 

[Paladin3]

Every Election prior to this, they'd look up my name, put a check next to it, or I'd initial, and I'd go into a booth to vote.

That's it. 5-10 minutes max. I spent an insane amount of time to vote this year, just for my right to an anonymous vote to be thrown in the trash? Something is VERY wrong this year.

If I had arrived at your polling place 5 minutes before you, claimed to be you and signed your initials there would be nothing to stop me. How does that lame system you advocate make for honest elections?

If we don't force voters to prove who they are and that they are entitled to vote before they do so then the whole election is a sham. And we must associate that information with the actual ballot through the entire vote counting process, or anyone could stuff the box with as many fraudulent ballots as they wanted to because we would have no way to track that they were valid.

And none of this means your individual vote will be made public. You want anonymous voting to protect you, but anonymous voting cannot exist without invalidating the entire voting process. Anyone could vote anywhere, as many times as they wanted. Which is pretty much what we have now.

Either you are trolling (imagine that!) or you are letting your overgrown sense of victimization get in the way of your common sense.

 

[Paladin3]

really? why do you think they say YOU put the card in the machine? it's because of your right to vote who you wish to vote for, without anyone knowing. it's ALWAYS been anonymous.

i really hope my sarcasm meter is broken.

No, your common sense is. If votes were anonymous, and we had no way to know who put them in the ballot box, then the only safeguard we would have over the process would be the honesty and diligence of our noble volunteer poll workers. <---Now there's some sarcasm for you.

 

[herrjimbo]

No, your common sense is. If votes were anonymous, and we had no way to know who put them in the ballot box, then the only safeguard we would have over the process would be the honesty and diligence of our noble volunteer poll workers. <---Now there's some sarcasm for you.

you missed my point. i totally agree that an id should be shown, just to make sure who you are and can only do it once. the anonymous part is after that.

now that we know who is voting, it's no ones business who we vote for. hope that clears up the confusion.

 

[torpid]

It's probably not fraud, but might be some sort of crime relating to tampering.

 

[lupi]

Haven't voted on paper in about 6 years.

 

[Puppies04]

Just checked your voter identification number online AMD, apparently you voted for Bieber.... the shame.

 

[slag]

I had to show my ID for the first time in Lawrence today and thanked them for that. It helps to cut down on voter fraud. Plus, once they find you you voted for Obama, they can laugh at you and post funny pics of you doing things with cats on facebook.

 

[jagec]

read the OP again. He also had to record who he voted for.

Nope, OP is trying to stretch the truth. They made him record his ID and the unique ballot number. The only way that they'll be able to figure out who he voted for is if the guy who collected the cards broke into the locked ballot box and matched the ballot number to the card. Which won't happen. OP needs to chill out and take his meds.

I had to show my ID for the first time in Lawrence today and thanked them for that. It helps to cut down on voters.

FTFY, voter fraud is practically non-existent.

 

[bigrash]

they might as well have two lines for voting. "obama step up to line 1, and romney step up to line 2".

that would be awesome lol.

 

[amdhunter]

Nope, OP is trying to stretch the truth. They made him record his ID and the unique ballot number.

Yeah, this is what they did. I don't ever remember them recording my ballot number before (because it didn't exist.)

I thought once you signed in, that was it. There was never a way to tie the information on who you voted for prior to this year.

 

[Lifted]

Gov Cuomo announced that NYS residents can vote at any election booth in the state. I assume what you experienced was the only way they could come up with at a moments notice to prevent people from voting multiple times in different locations.

Not sure if the methods you ran into used to ID voters are legal or illegal, but all that will come of any major criticism or lawsuits will be "this wasn't planned for. we're putting proper procedures in place in case this even occurs again."