For all the fear mongering about voter fraud, it has proven amazingly elusive. TPM Muckraker has the story of some possible voter fraud in New York. The specific details are mildly interesting but not of much importance to Indiana. Basically, it involves a pissing match by proxy between Democrats and Republicans in a third-party primary in a county-level election. The important take away with respect to Indiana is that the fraud appears to have involved absentee ballots. Yet more evidence that, contrary to Gov. Daniels’ assertions, it is not “preposterous” or even partisan to require greater or at least equal security standards for absentee ballots as opposed to in-person voting.
If anybody really wants to see voter fraud, it isn’t hard to come by. Merely go to any polling place that is in a precinct that is dominated by one party or the other, such that they have a hard time staffing it with opposition personnel. I found loads of voter fraud in a handful of precincts each time I visited such precincts, as a registered poll watcher. The usual culprit is materials inside the line.
I do agree with you fully about making the rules consistent from absentee to in-person. That’s a no-brainer.
If you want to see the other side of ACORN,watch the Rachel Maddow show,MSNBC,9 pm ET. She’s doing a well-documented continuing expose againt the Fox news ‘orchestrated’ expose against ACORN. The Anti-acorn movement has corporate and ideological roots,and is a long standing conservavtive obsession..Sure ACORN should be cleaned up,but why wasn’t Halliburton ever cleaned up? Blackwater got to change their name and go on in Iraq making profit at public expense,so hopefully ACORN can come back with a name change and no one will notice that either.ACORN hasnt killed anybody ( as Rachel pointed out).
Why does public spending become a moral issue only for the poor and minorities? All public money should be accounted for..
By allowing non-partisan and third party poll workers we could eliminate the problem of 1 party precincts. However, the parties refuse to assign people to precincts who won’t put D or R by their name.
Marion County precinct inspectors are non-partisan and are assigned by the clerk. I have worked as an inspector for the the last several elections. The other poll workers, the clerks and judges, are assigned by the Democratic and Republican parties. If you want to be a poll worker without working through one of the major parties, I suggest that you contact the Clerk’s office, which currently is seeking inspectors for the upcoming election.