There’s documentation when people die. Someone in could check and see that those people voted (in a somewhat automated way), then trigger an investigation where authorities look up what address were those ballots mailed to. Again, seems very risky (at least in the US where elections are litigated and governments are scrutinizing individual votes in close elections to find cases like this).
I’m not saying it never happens, but rather that it’s easy enough to discover that people who do it have a decent change of getting caught. That constraints how widespread the issue can be.
And political parties have access to records of who voted. If bunches of dead people were voting, someone would have both the information and the incentive to make hay about the readily available concrete proof, most notably, political parties pushing voter ID requirements. Since they aren't doing that, it's pretty clear that isn't happening.
So assuming the scheme only works when everyone is in on it, would you be the one who reports it and gets punished and vilified? And who would you report it to? I'm not from thw US, and it brings a hopeful smile that conspiraces seem solvable over there.
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They can use deceased people probably. I've heard of such cases in eastern europe for fraud.
There’s documentation when people die. Someone in could check and see that those people voted (in a somewhat automated way), then trigger an investigation where authorities look up what address were those ballots mailed to. Again, seems very risky (at least in the US where elections are litigated and governments are scrutinizing individual votes in close elections to find cases like this).
I’m not saying it never happens, but rather that it’s easy enough to discover that people who do it have a decent change of getting caught. That constraints how widespread the issue can be.
And political parties have access to records of who voted. If bunches of dead people were voting, someone would have both the information and the incentive to make hay about the readily available concrete proof, most notably, political parties pushing voter ID requirements. Since they aren't doing that, it's pretty clear that isn't happening.
So assuming the scheme only works when everyone is in on it, would you be the one who reports it and gets punished and vilified? And who would you report it to? I'm not from thw US, and it brings a hopeful smile that conspiraces seem solvable over there.