Name:   architect - Subject:   There is voter fraud...absentee ballots Date:   12/3/2015 12:35:50 PM (updated 12/3/2015 12:38:15 PM)

Hound, you are correct.  This whole voter ID business is a sham but it doesn't mean there is not voter fraud. Several years ago I voted absentee.  I obtained the ballot online.  All that was needed was my county voter ID number, address and (l think I recall correctly) SS number.  They had no way  to know that I was who I said I was.  I downloaded the ballot, cast my vote and mailed it in.  I assume my vote was counted, but there is no way the registrar's office knew whether the voter was actually me.  Summing up...there was no requirement of proof that I was who I claimed to be to get the ballot and know way for them to know that who voted and sent in the ballot was who the ballot was sent to.  I have a good friend who obtained and voted absentee for at least 3 election cycles for her mother who suffered from altzheimers and had no idea this was happening...the last general election she voted her mother's absentee ballot several weeks after the good lady's death?  I have another friend whose husband had such advanced dementia he wasn't even aware of his own existence for the final year of his life...same situation, she Cast his ballot in the 2012 and 2014 general elections.  It is not Germaine to the narritave, but both these friend just happen to be staunch Republicans.   I have been led to understand, but have no proof, that in most areas the majority of the absentee ballots are cast by Republican voters!!