Thread by @ncdave4life

@g_berish @DineshDSouza If you're talking about the 2020 Presidential race, then I agree that fraud didn't throw it. Fraud might have flipped Georgia, but Trump needed at least three more states (four unless one of them was Pennsylvania). So it is clear that fraud did not cost Trump reelection.

But...

@g_berish @DineshDSouza But let’s not pretend that voter fraud is rare in the USA. Here's proof of >750 cases of voter fraud, in one election, here in NC (where I live):
burtonsys.com/voterfraud/
Those are cases in which the same person's vote was cast in two different States, in the same election.

@g_berish @DineshDSouza 750 felonies is a crime wave!

That's voter fraud of the sort which can only be deterred by requiring voter ID, but Democrat-dominated courts have prevented us from requiring voter ID in North Carolina.

@g_berish @DineshDSouza Without voter ID, it is usually impossible to prosecute those felonies, because we have no way of knowing which were cases of one person voting twice (in which case the named voter is the criminal), and which were impersonation (so the named voter is victim of identity theft).

@g_berish @DineshDSouza In both cases, felonies were committed & fraudulent votes cast, but you can't prosecute someone if you can't tell whether he's the criminal or the victim. So the crimes go unpunished.

That means the fraud goes undeterred. You cannot deter crimes that you cannot prosecute.

@g_berish @DineshDSouza That's presumably why most Democrat politicians oppose voter ID: to ensure that voter fraud cannot be prevented, because they know that most voter fraud is by Democrats, to benefit Democratic candidates.

@g_berish @DineshDSouza Also, we know the true number of fraudulent votes was much higher, because the process which detected those 750 fraudulent votes only detected one type of fraud (dual-state voting), and only for some other states (since many states didn’t participate in Interstate Crosscheck).

@g_berish @DineshDSouza 750 fraudulent votes is not inconsequential. Important elections are often decided by very small margins.

Most famously, the 2000 election of George W. Bush over Al Gore was decided by just 537 votes, in Florida.

@g_berish @DineshDSouza Eight years later, the 2008 election which put Al Franken in the U.S. Senate was decided by just 225 votes — and Franken ended up being the deciding vote which enacted Obamacare (among other things).

@g_berish @DineshDSouza 9 years later, in 2017, Republicans won control of the Virginia House of Delegates BY ONE VOTE.
Not just by 1 seat, but by 1 actual voter’s vote: a disputed ballot by someone who marked his or her ballot for the Democrat, but had crossed it out and marked the Republican, instead.

@g_berish @DineshDSouza That made the election a tie, which was decided by lot, for the Republican, giving the Republicans control of the House of Delegates, by one seat:

huffpost.com/entry/election…

@g_berish @DineshDSouza @rattibha @threadreaderapp @threader_app please unroll or compile this.