No arguments here. I try to stay away from metropolitan Boston. The storied ring road “Route 128” is as much crazy as I can handle without a compelling reason to venture into the belly of the beast.
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This guy was convicted of voting once in Florida and again in New Hampshire. Pretty light sentence for a felony.
You are not recognizing the differences in both of the following categories:
- State law vs. federal law.
- One general election and one or more state primary elections.
I’ve got no real beef with a state or even the feds making it illegal to vote in more than one state primary during an electoral cycle. I think it’s somewhere between pointless, stupid, and bad to prevent people from voting where they live over the course of, like, time. But whatever.
Your exemplar voted in two states in two simultaneous general elections. I do not think (but could be wrong) that federal law prevents that. I am confident that most every state’s laws prohibit that.
I believe it should be federal law that nobody gets to vote more than once in a general election.
I don’t believe it should be a federal law that nobody gets to vote in two statewide primaries, so long as they are otherwise eligible to vote.
What if someone resided in State A, which in January was having, say, a special election to fill a vacant Senate seat. (It’s been too long a day for me to look up the details, but I’m pretty sure that at least some states provide for this.)
Then the person moves to State B, and votes for a candidate for Senate in that state’s regular November election.
Is that wrong? If so, why? If not, where’s the difference?
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Yep. It is quite a horror that one voter has double the number of votes in a Presidential primary than another.
Anyone can! All you gotta do is pack up everything you own, sell the house (unless you’re renting, in which case your lease best be expiring), quit your job. move everything to another state with a late primary at least 30 days before the election, find a new job, register to vote, and vote in compliance with all applicable state and local laws. It’s the perfect, victimless non-crime!
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Also, the whole “primary election” thing in these here U.S. of A. is kinda unusual. It’s much more usual in other places, including plenty of perfectly – well, as far as anything based on this wacky idea that the hoi polloi ought to have a voice in running things can be – functional democracies, for the political parties to pick their candidates. The voters get their say in the general.
For that matter, the whole concept of a political party is external to the Constitution. The founders, bless their hearts, were kind of hoping we could avoid all that factional stuff.
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So who got the bounty money…You know, the thousands in reward for uncovering actual voter fraud…you know, the bounty on fraudsters provided by that rightwinger Big Steal guy who has so far managed to catch a few REPUBLCANS?