[EL] Artur Davis on election fraud

[Edward Still]

Alabama now requires that folks voting absentee include a copy of their ID
with their absentee ballots.

On the other hand, one popular form of absentee ballot fraud in Alabama is
"helping" the absentee voter mark his/her ballot. ID does nada to stop that.


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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Chandler Davidson <fcd at rice.edu> wrote:

> Absentee ballot fraud, however, would not be prevented by a photo ID law,
> would it?   I agree with your point about the need for an enterprising
> reporter.
>
>
> On Oct 21, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Soren Dayton wrote:
>
> To be fair, there's a fairly extraordinary record of absentee fraud, with
> convictions, there. Anyone equipped with Google can find lots of
> convictions. If I were an enterprising reporter, I would ask him about the
> "wholesale manufacture of ballots, at the polls".
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Chandler Davidson <fcd at rice.edu> wrote:
>
>> As you reported recently, former Alabama congressman Artur Davis wrote in
>> a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser, re his current support for photo ID
>> laws (which laws he had previously opposed):
>>
>>
>>
>> "The truth is that the most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in
>> the African American community, at least in Alabama, is the wholesale
>> manufacture of ballots, at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black
>> Belt.  Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the
>> too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are
>> exercising their rights -- that's suppression by any light. If you doubt it
>> exists, I don't; I've heard the peddlers of these ballots brag about it,
>> I've been asked to provide the funds for it, and I am confident it has
>> changed at least a few close local election results."
>>
>>
>> I would hope that at the time he heard law-breakers bragging about
>> committing vote fraud and requesting his help in perpetrating it, he
>> reported them to the authorities.  if not, was he complicit in this alleged
>> fraud?
>>
>> Chandler Davidson
>>
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