Posted on Nov 14, 2022
Election officials feared the worst. Here's why baseless claims haven't fueled chaos
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Election officials feared the worst. Here's why baseless claims haven't fueled chaos
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MSgt Dale Johnson
Many were not baseless, however, those that were legitimately frauds involved so few votes that it would not have changed even a single electee. So why get your panties all wrapped up in a knot right?
I am seriously glad this election ran with so few hiccups. The one in Maricopa County is the only one that comes to mind and when they got the printer set for darker print problems all went away.
I am seriously glad this election ran with so few hiccups. The one in Maricopa County is the only one that comes to mind and when they got the printer set for darker print problems all went away.
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SP5 Dennis Loberger
Now that all the political ads have disappeared they have been replaced by ads for Medicare Advantage plans
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."I heard dead people are ‘voting’
Conspiracy theories about dead voters rarely claim a true zombie scenario, but instead imply that fraudsters are impersonating dead people to vote in their name.
In reality, the state has ways to guard against this — including by cross-referencing the voter lists with death records from North Carolina and many other states. Not every state shares its death records, so it’s possible North Carolina wouldn’t know if someone from here died in one of those states. The state therefore also automatically un-registers any voter who hasn’t voted in a while.
Some people do still try it, however. That happened twice in 2016.
Out of 4.8 million ballots that North Carolinians cast in 2016, two were from people caught voting in their name and also in the name of a recently deceased family member. Both admitted it to investigators when caught and said they didn’t realize they were breaking the law. Both fraudulent ballots supported Republican candidates, a state audit found. In both cases, the local district attorneys, also Republicans, chose not to charge them with committing a crime."...
..."I heard dead people are ‘voting’
Conspiracy theories about dead voters rarely claim a true zombie scenario, but instead imply that fraudsters are impersonating dead people to vote in their name.
In reality, the state has ways to guard against this — including by cross-referencing the voter lists with death records from North Carolina and many other states. Not every state shares its death records, so it’s possible North Carolina wouldn’t know if someone from here died in one of those states. The state therefore also automatically un-registers any voter who hasn’t voted in a while.
Some people do still try it, however. That happened twice in 2016.
Out of 4.8 million ballots that North Carolinians cast in 2016, two were from people caught voting in their name and also in the name of a recently deceased family member. Both admitted it to investigators when caught and said they didn’t realize they were breaking the law. Both fraudulent ballots supported Republican candidates, a state audit found. In both cases, the local district attorneys, also Republicans, chose not to charge them with committing a crime."...
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