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> party buying millions of votes from the undocumented

Voter rolls are public. Undocumented voters being added to the rolls is trivially detectable.

Hell, a separate-the-dumb-from-their-money non-profit idea may be in raising money to repeatedly do this. Because voter fraud conspiracies are like string theory: it can’t be falsified.



But who is going to correct or challenge the results after the fact?


> who is going to correct or challenge the results after the fact?

The campaigns, usually. More recently, rando non-profits that milk the conspiratorially minded to run bogus audits.


Introducing provable distrust in the system is probably the beginning on the collapse of US democracy


> provable distrust in the system is probably the beginning on the collapse of US democracy

We had no photo ID when the U.S. was founded. This is a problem of mental health, education and educational mistrust (partly legitimate, a result of our elites mismanaging the economy). Voter ID won’t fix the problem.




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