If you have someone dirty on the inside there’s no need to take the risk of recruiting people to commit voter fraud — the crook can stuff the ballot box all by him or herself.

If ballot tampering is a real problem it suggests we should have tighter procedures for running elections and monitoring ballot handling, not tighter standards for verifying voter eligibility (which is what the GOP is usually arguing for when it trots out the voter fraud boogieman).

Again, that isn’t voter fraud; it isn’t ineligible voters casting ballots.

Also, where there is voter registration fraud, you have the ability to fraudulently vote.

Voter registration fraud is necessary but not sufficient. Imagine that you manage to get 100,000 fraudulent voter registrations (i.e. enough to change the Brown-Coakley outcome) into the system. Then you need to find people willing to commit a felony to impersonate each of those 100,000 people, and keep the whole massive conspiracy a secret.

There are easier, legal ways to win elections.

Prove it. Proper chain of custody was broken, and fraud was thereby enabled.

That isn’t voter fraud (ballots cast by fictional or ineligible voters).

And we know ACORN’s get-out-the-vote efforts including registering the entire Dallas Cowboy football team to vote in Nevada.

That isn’t voter fraud either — the Cowboys did not actually cast ballots in Nevada. That’s voter registration fraud, which does not affect election outcomes.

Keep trying.

You mean besides the Democrat precinct judge that packed all the ballots in her private car and then drove off by herself to deliver them in that Minnesota Race that took months to sort out and won by a small margin? If that’s the case, I could list the various ACORN examples, as ACORN was the resource available to Obama in 2008. And we know ACORN’s get-out-the-vote efforts including registering the entire Dallas Cowboy football team to vote in Nevada.

I don’t recall anyone alleging that Bush stole the election by having people vote multiple times, or under assumed names.

Boy Jim, that sure must be some good ganga you’re smoking.

Feel free to show me some proven examples of large scale voter fraud in recent elections.

I’m not saying that voter fraud doesn’t happen because Democrats are angels; I’m saying it doesn’t happen because it doesn’t make sense. The resources it would take to successfully steal an election with voter fraud can accomplish far more (with no legal risk) if put into legitimate get-out-the-vote efforts.

In other words, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.