Voter fraud possible?

Quit getting your hopes up. McCain lost.

It's perfectly possible that there wasn't.

After all, Obama won 52% of the popular vote and McCain won 48% or something. It was pretty close in the popular vote. Notice how the electoral vote just depended on what state got won by the candidate that won it in the popular vote. The electoral college votes was a big difference, but Gore won the popular vote but not the electoral college (which is solely why he didn't win).

The article is based on Georgia, which McCain won. So it wouldn't make any difference anyway.

Voter fraud has never been a serious problem. Once in a while they catch someone trying to vote twice, or trying to vote illegally. OTOH, tens of thousands of people nationwide have been denied the right to vote by electoral fraud.

The best example of this was in Florida in 2000. Katherine Harris, the Secretary of State of Florida, did a purge of the names of felons. Not just the felons but people who had the same names as felons and in some cases only the same first or last name. She purged 70,000 names, almost all in Democratic-leaning counties. These people showed up at the polls and were told their names had been purged. They could restore their names but they wouldn't be able to vote in this election. The Republicans admit that 10-15% of the names on the list were legitimate voters, but that is at least 7,000 people, in Democratic-leaning counties, in an election GW Bush won by less than 700 votes.

GW Bush tried to use his Justice Dept. to intimidate blacks and Democrats through false charges of voter fraud. In fact many of the US attorneys he put on this project said they wouldn't do it because there wasn't any actual evidence of voter fraud, so he fired them!

And these are just examples. I could give you lots more examples. On the other hand, there wasn't a single prosecution of anyone connected with ACORN. There is absolutely no evidence that their drive to register voters resulted in a single illegal vote!

In the past whenever they've investigated reports of voter fraud, it has turned out to be nothing.

I would be more concerned about the hundreds of thousands of people who were refused their vote since the GOP was suing precincts to purge their records.

Hey I voted for McCain and realize that the very very small numbers of actual voter fraud would not have gotten McCain elected.

The cited article listed THREE people, and hedged it's claim about a possible 112,000 by noting that many may have been different registered people with the same names.

In short, its an unsubstantiated allegation. Until they get some REAL evidence that supports this claim, it fails for a lack of evidence.

I am sure it happened, the system was broken so that this could happen. Obama was elected to his first office by claiming petition form fraud and sued to get elected by eliminating every other candidate and running unopposed.

Why would Obama allow an investigation of his own cheating?

Dems won-no voters fraud allegations or voters complaints

just when Repubs win

Forget about the Black Panthers with billy clubs in Philly standing at poll entrances

What-the press didn't cover that?

McCain won Georgia. If it's true and the THREE men that they suspect actually did this, then good for them for catching them and I hope they punish them appropriately. Since it seems to have had no bearing on the outcome of the Presidency, it probably doesn't matter much.

if people could vote twice why are you assuming that it would just affect obama. how do you know that people wouldn't vote for mccain twice. Stop having such a one sided opinion. if something could have happened for one person it could have for the other. Open your mind up!

As the conservatives have said for the last 8 yrs, "Get over it". LOL. Sucks when the shoe is on the other foot.