If there was an instance in which a 112% turnout was reported, it would not be unprecedented. But then there would be a much simpler explanation than non-existent “voter fraud”

Recall that back in 2006, Arkansas voted on the 100% unverifiable, ES&S touch-screen DREs.

The BRAD BLOG reported:

Of course, in that same report, it was revealed that whacky results go both ways on the iVotronic. In the FL-13 Congressional race, the iVotronic mysteriously lost 18,000 votes in a county with heavy Democratic registration, giving the Republican candidate a 356 vote victory.

In Waldenburg, Arkansas, a town of only 80 voters, mayoral candidate Randy Wooten received zero votes, although he swears he voted for himself.

But the real kicker, was the March 7, 2006 Republican primary in TX.

So my question to Gov. Corbett, especially in light of the fact that documented cases of actual in-person voter impersonation are about as scarce as hen's teeth, if there were, indeed, some (any) precincts who reported a 112% turnout, what sort of voting machines were used?

Lovely, isn't he? Question is, is he an idiot, or just careless with his disinformation (or both)?

With all the efforts to register voters by ACORN, SEIU, LaRaza, Working Familes Party, etc., etc., one would think that the paid volunteers would mandate that an acceptable voter photo ID would be secured at the same time.
One of Obama's first acts was to bring the Census under White House control. Why? As a former ACORN trainer he knew the value of using trickery and fakery in the registration process, anything goes in the attempts to confuse the system, overload the system and sidestep the infrastructure that attempts to keep elections on the up and up.

Another reason the "112%" claim is idiotic is because if it were true it would still not be an argument for photo ID. It's impossible to get 112% turn out from "impersonating" voters showing up at the polling place. Election workers cross off the name of each registered voter as they vote. If their name was already crossed off, the false-voter would be found out (or if the fake got there first, the real voter would complain). Voter fraud could never push the turn out over 100%, and couldn't get anywhere near 100% without creating all sorts of evidence of the fraud --- which we know doesn't exist.

It is possible to get 112% through ELECTION fraud by election insiders (or hackers) stuffing ballot boxes or hacking electronic vote counting machines or central tabulators. Vote ID is useless against such fraud. The real remedy is paper ballots counted by hand in public on site on election night.

That would stop the sort of fraud that was used to steal the 2004 election in Ohio for Bush, and that is why Republicans would rather send us on the snipe hunt of "voter fraud".

Gary Henderson @3, in addition to launching into yet another right-wing smear of ACORN, adds:

one would think that the paid volunteers would mandate that an acceptable voter photo ID would be secured at the same time.

1. Why should any group devoted to registering the poor have to add the expense of obtaining state approved photo IDs for those who lawfully register to vote – photo IDs that can usually only be obtained from DMVs – when there is virtually no evidence of polling place voter impersonation that is the only type of voter fraud photo IDs can ostensibly prevent?

2. Please explain to me how those groups can obtain a photo ID for someone like 77-year old Bettye Jones, who moved to Brookfield, WI with her daughter. Jones, who was home-born in TN, has voted regularly since the 1950s. She possesses a valid Ohio driver's license. She and her daughter devoted substantial time and expense only to learn from TN officials that, despite a "thorough search," they cannot locate her birth certificate, according to her complaint. Without a birth certificate, Jones cannot obtain one of the official WI-issued forms of photo ID required to vote in the state.

3. Please explain why any American should now jump through hoops to exercise their right to vote --- a right that has been exercised for more than two centuries without requiring photo ID at the polls?

I'm willing to bet that the mis-remembered statistic was regarding this;

http://falkvinge.net/201...lkvinge+on+Infopolicy%29

European copyright reform failed with 113% voter representation - but this was not people at the polls - this was at the parliamentary level (IE - the equivalent of the senate). This is where real vote fraud happens all the time.

This would be the same Governor Corbett who, as Attorney General, refused to INVESTIGATE the sexual abuse allegations at Penn State, and then supported the ouster of Joe Paterno? Kind of puts his credibility in perspective, does it not?

Better call out the NAACP and the ACLU now because students will be forced to show picture ID's to take their SAT's because of CHEATING. BTW: In Mexico, any citizen of age 18 or greater must go to an electoral office in order be registered into the electoral census. Citizens receive a voting card (credencial de elector con fotografía), issued by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) that must be shown to vote in any election. The voting card also serves as a national identity document.