Blog Post #2

Hey, its time for another of these sill blog posts that I have to do. This time its about the election so I decided to talk about voter fraud. I think that voter fraud is pretty cool. There is evidence that there was fraud in democratic elections all the way back in Ancient Greece. Archeological evidence has been found of 190 pieces of pottery used as votes with only 14 distinguishable types of hand writing on the pieces.

Voter fraud has been a big issue in the past two presidential elections, as well as in the primaries of this one. There were issues with the voter registration roll in Florida in both the 2000 and 2004 elections. this could be construed as a type of voter fraud because of the supposed loosening of the terms of the felon roll. According to testimony from the vice president of Choice-Point, the company in charge of removing the felons that had not received their civil rights back from the voter registration lists, the Florida government "wanted there to be more names than were actually verified as being a convicted felon." The problem is that this could have potentially skewed the results This was compared to something that happened during the gubernatorial election right here in New Jersey. Back in 1981 the Republican National Committee hired a group of people in a bid to win the election. They had off duty officers carrying revolvers patrolling the polling places Trenton and Newark in particularly Hispanic and African American neighborhoods barring certain people for entering. The RNC also tried to get a group of voters that did not receive mailers removed from the ballot as ineligible. This was stopped when it was discovered that 45,000 of those letters were based on outdated materials that the RNC used anyway.