Once at Whittier Park, 2600 Grand Ave South Minneapolis, in
the crowd of voters there I overheard one person say, well I don't live here
but I want to vote for my friend who is candidate here. She had the voucher
lined up and they went through and voted. Of course, likely she had already
voted where ever she lived. All that's needed -then or now- is a person
accompanying them who does have the credentials, and that person just
vouches for the other person and they all vote, no questions asked.
This was in mid 1980's, likely the candidate was DFL as in the
city most all office holders were then DFL. I wondered how many other
voters were doing that. And I wondered how many office holders got elected
that way.
The practice is pantently dishonest and voter fraud and the
people doing it have to be aware of that. They are participating in theft
of an election. The dishonest votes are votes against democracy itself.
I think there should be an effort to either catch fraudulent
voters -and give them maximum penalty or just preventing them from voting if
they have no evidence at all of where they actually live.
James Jacobsen // Whittier.
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