Monday, August 01, 2011
Bit of a hullabaloo over 'Mississippi NAACP leader sentenced in voting fraud."
Mississippi has 82 counties. Tunica county has almost 11,000 people.
The NAACP county chapter is run by an executive board, with titles like assistant to the secretary. In addition, there is an executive committee, which doesn't have any designated functions shown on the website. The convicted person served on this executive committee. To call her a "Mississippi NAACP leader" is probably overstating the case.
Her "massive voting fraud" consisted of ten absentee ballots. She had a prior conviction for forgery. My guess is that this time she got caught,and that she's not the only person in Tunica county to pull this kind of stunt. Still, any benefit to her is probably outweighed by her conviction and jail time. I haven't looked to see whether elections in Tunica county are close, where a cabal of voter fraudsters could put in their own faction, and use it for the usual sorts of graft and corruption.
Voter fraud such as this is real, but it pales in comparison to the 1000 Indiana voters in 2008 alone who were defrauded of their votes when their provisional ballots were not counted.
Now that voter ID is metastacizing around the country, the massiveness of voter ID based voter fraud will go up, and probably no one will keep a good count.
Meanwhile some small and uncountable deterrent effect to in person voting fraud will result,and only some of that fraud will be moved into new channels such as absentee fraud.
Mississippi has 82 counties. Tunica county has almost 11,000 people.
The NAACP county chapter is run by an executive board, with titles like assistant to the secretary. In addition, there is an executive committee, which doesn't have any designated functions shown on the website. The convicted person served on this executive committee. To call her a "Mississippi NAACP leader" is probably overstating the case.
Her "massive voting fraud" consisted of ten absentee ballots. She had a prior conviction for forgery. My guess is that this time she got caught,and that she's not the only person in Tunica county to pull this kind of stunt. Still, any benefit to her is probably outweighed by her conviction and jail time. I haven't looked to see whether elections in Tunica county are close, where a cabal of voter fraudsters could put in their own faction, and use it for the usual sorts of graft and corruption.
Voter fraud such as this is real, but it pales in comparison to the 1000 Indiana voters in 2008 alone who were defrauded of their votes when their provisional ballots were not counted.
Now that voter ID is metastacizing around the country, the massiveness of voter ID based voter fraud will go up, and probably no one will keep a good count.
Meanwhile some small and uncountable deterrent effect to in person voting fraud will result,and only some of that fraud will be moved into new channels such as absentee fraud.
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