Higher penalties only matter if they're actually administered. You can make election fraud carry the death penalty, they'll still do it because nobody is stopping them and nobody will ever actually hold them accountable.
Really? You think nobody will be held accountable, ever? That doesn't track with history.
The Heritage Foundation actually maintains a database of election fraud, going back to at least the 70s. It's not complete, just a sampling, but there are zillions of cases of people criminally prosecuted for various means of fraud, and a great many of these cases are actually prosecuted in some of the most institutionally corrupt corners of the country (East St. Louis, Cook County, Atlanta, etc.). Lots of cases from as late as 2018. Did every criminal prosecutor in those areas suddenly die or change their minds about pursuing fraud? I expect there will be hundreds of such cases pursued this year. It'll be far too late to change the election outcome, but people will be punished.
But more importantly, mail-in balloting probably made this election the easiest to steal since 1888, an election so egregiously stolen that by 1889 huge election reforms were being implemented across the country. No, we're not done. I know it feels that way but it's simply untrue.
Higher penalties only matter if they're actually administered. You can make election fraud carry the death penalty, they'll still do it because nobody is stopping them and nobody will ever actually hold them accountable.
Really? You think nobody will be held accountable, ever? That doesn't track with history.
The Heritage Foundation actually maintains a database of election fraud, going back to at least the 70s. It's not complete, just a sampling, but there are zillions of cases of people criminally prosecuted for various means of fraud, and a great many of these cases are actually prosecuted in some of the most institutionally corrupt corners of the country (East St. Louis, Cook County, Atlanta, etc.). Lots of cases from as late as 2018. Did every criminal prosecutor in those areas suddenly die or change their minds about pursuing fraud? I expect there will be hundreds of such cases pursued this year. It'll be far too late to change the election outcome, but people will be punished.
But more importantly, mail-in balloting probably made this election the easiest to steal since 1888, an election so egregiously stolen that by 1889 huge election reforms were being implemented across the country. No, we're not done. I know it feels that way but it's simply untrue.