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Originally Posted by ikalugin
Why? The system appears to be vulnerable.
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As someone else said, the only place the system is vulnerable to widespread fraud is in the counting/changing of the ballots after votes have been cast.
I came across the following that might explain the difficulty of perpetuating voter fraud on a national level.
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In most countries the national government oversees elections and may even have a wing of government charged with this duty. In the U.S. this is not the case at all, not even for Federal elections. This is one of the unsung parts of "States Rights" and exemplifies our national motto of E pluribus unum (out of many, one) that is a pretty interesting part of how the U.S. government is set up. Oversight of elections is charged to the local or county level here, with ultimate oversight by each State's Secretary of State.
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