It is not the same because it is not the same as voting. Fraudulently registering, while just as illegal, has no real effect if the registration is not used. Actually using that registration is what would be really important as that would actually effect the election. So yes, there is a big huge whopping difference.
You can register fake people all day and that has absolutely no bearing on the actual election. It would through off stats and make it look like a lot of people just didn't bother to vote, but it has zero effect on the election, or anything else for that matter. Wikipedia, as many like to point out, is not always correct. Technichically it is electoral fraud, but it is not voter fraud. There are a large number of items that are electoral fraud that having an id will not solve. Actual voter fraud is something like .04% of all votes actually cast....and that is historically...so that means all votes ever cast...which makes it, statistically, a non-issue. ------------------------------------ Three Ravens Consulting Eric Roberts Owner/Developer ow...@threeravensconsulting.com tel: 630-486-5255 fax: 630-310-8531 http://www.threeravensconsulting.com ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:critic...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:50 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: this is really sick "Voter registration fraud is not the same as voter fraud." Wow. Knowingly signing someone up to vote who is not eligible is not voter fraud? I disagree. So does wikipedia: Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts offraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both. Also called *voter fraud*, the mechanisms involved i*nclude illegal voter registration*, intimidation at polls and improper vote counting. What electoral fraud is under law varies from country to country. Ehh. It's only wikipedia though. Not exactly a quality source. Maybe someone on the list should edit it. Anyway, I don't mind calling it election fraud. It's a better name anyway. What about voting when you are ineligible? Would you call that voter fraud? That's what the 113 convictions were for. J - The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears. - Barrack Obama The president of the United States believes that he has the power to order people killed, assassinated, in total secrecy, without any due process, without transparency or oversight of any kind. I really do believe it's literally the most radical power that a government and a president can seize, and yet the Obama administration has seized this power and exercised it aggressively with very little controversy. - Glenn Greenwald, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353881 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
