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Originally Posted by Gravydoo II
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Show me one state, an entire state, won by the margin of the total number of fraudulent ballots in the past 20 years. Show me one county. Show me one race. Just one.
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This is an interesting problem. As we've seen in the past, sufficiently close state elections usually end up being decided by the courts (notoriously Florida in 2000). You don't want your cheating to be TOO widespread because the odds of being caught rapidly increase as you involve more and more people.** Vote fraud would therefore work most effectively in a close-run election where the "cheating" side happens to be confident of controlling the relevant courts. In all probability such fraud would be more easily accomplished from the counting side rather from the ballot side.
**The near-impossibility of keeping hundreds or thousands of people quiet about something is why I usually reject large-scale conspiracies. There's always a snitch in any big group.
Danth