Hey, look! We may have an actual case of voter fraud at the polling place! An attempted case anyway…
Roxanne Rubin was taken into custody as she arrived for work at the Riviera hotel-casino, investigators said. Rubin, 56, is a registered Republican who lives in Henderson, according to the Clark County Registrar.
Rubin allegedly cast a vote Monday at the Anthem Community Center in Henderson. Later that day, she tried to vote a second time at an early voting location on Eastern Avenue, investigators said.
When Rubin arrived at the second location, a poll worker conducted a routine database check and found Rubin had already voted. When confronted by the poll worker, Rubin denied having voted and claimed the database used by the poll worker was wrong.
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Rubin was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on one felony count of voting twice in the same election.
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While allegations of voter fraud or faulty voting machines are common during a busy election, Clark County Registrar Larry Lomax said this is the first time in his 15 years on the job that a voter has been arrested for trying to cast two ballots.
While NV election officials are crowing about safeguards in their system which they say worked to stop Rubin from being able to vote twice, in fairness, we’ll note that she deserves a trial before anyone decides for certain that she, indeed, carried out the crime she is accused of. It could very well turn out to be true that she didn’t try to vote twice, that somehow, someone else voted under her name in the first instance. But we’ll see.
In either case, this points up once again just how rare it is that folks commit actual voter fraud at the polls. (Doing so via absentee ballot is far more common, and another reason why systems like Oregon’s all Vote-by-Mail system — where state officials are now investigating ballot tampering by a GOP election official after she allegedly filled in unvoted ballots with Republican candidates — remains a terrible idea for democracy.)
Neither voting twice, as alleged in Nevada above, nor crimes via absentee ballot fraud, are deterred in any way by the disenfranchising polling place Photo ID restrictions enacted by Republicans in a dozen states recently, despite their wholly unsupported claims that such laws are needed to stop “voter fraud”. The only type of voter fraud that can possibly be deterred by those kinds of laws — which study after study has found to disproportionately disenfranchise elderly, minority, student and poor (read: Democratic-leaning) voters — is the incredibly rare crime of in person impersonation fraud.
A recent exhaustive study of all election fraud crimes in all 50 states since 2000, carried out by the investigative news consortium News21, found just ten (10) cases of in-person impersonation fraud out of hundreds of millions of votes cast across the nation during the same period.
Concerns about insider election fraud, however — such as the gaming of voter registration rolls, or the ability of a single election insider to flip the results of an entire election with a few keystrokes in a matter of seconds, with little possibility of detection — remain a very serious concern, as hundreds of computer scientists and security experts (as well as The BRAD BLOG) have been warning about now for years to little notice.
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Good idea, Blogenfreude. Just did it!
She LOOKS the part.
lol, Hans Von Hindenburg…
Wantt to prove voter fraud, do it yourself.
The GOP was right all along. There IS voter fraud after all.
Brad,
How do you suggest we get from our ugly state of voting in this country to an improved condition? I am fully aware of your suggestion for a perfect voting system. However, I would be interested in your suggestions for steps that can/should be taken to improve the situation nationwide. I would like you to address the reality of rethuglicon controlled states that like it the way it is.
But voter fraud doesn’t exist!
I am an election worker here in the US and a human rights election observer overseas. When an individual tries to “game” the system, that is “voter fraud”. When an election official tries to cheat, it is Election fraud and is a much more dangerous threat to our system. There are laws on the books to cover both; they need what is happening in this case – aggressive enforcement.
The difference between GOP and Democrat Voter Fraud is that the Democrats actually are successful at getting away with it.
My suggestion is fingerprint ID. Use ATM like voting kiosks with thumb print identity to activate and log vote. In fact use the atm at every store, bank and mall and just switch up their program to do votes. With an on screen palm reader to take in the identity.
Your bottom banner says — “Please support The BRAD BLOG’s fiercely independent”
Independent — ha ha you are funny! I think the only independents are people who don ‘t blindly support Dems. and Reps. Why don’t my third party candidates ever get a chance?
Change that banner to fiercely Democratic and then you won’t be disingenuous.
Emphasising that this woman’s fraud was failed fraud.
Also, unsophisticated (lacking hologram visual authenticity and magnetic db authentication) photo ID is economically forged and sold. Though the republican fraud machine would use less expensive mass production methods to game elections.