Nilgiri
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Ya, that proves nothing. Absolutely nothing. Come on, you're better than this. Voter fraud is very rare. It's just something some deluded Republicans like to talk about to suppress the vote. Especially when they lose. It really shouldn't come as a shock to many that a candidate leading the vast majority of polls wound up getting the most votes on election day. Even many of his own supporters expected her to win.
More importantly, you have to be registered to vote in order to vote. You would have to know someone's address and full name. If he/she already has voted (or if the real person shows up later), there will be a lot of problems. Secondly, I had to sign my name before I voted too. Not to mention that massive amounts of people would have to do this for only one of the candidates all across the state in order to even have an impact. Voter fraud can affect both sides.
And even if they somehow did this, it would become obvious very quickly that it was happening. Hundreds of thousands of people not being able to vote because some people supposedly already did for them would become very apparent, immediately. And of course, the people assuming the identity of others would have to only pick people that would have voted for the other candidate, otherwise they will not have actually accomplished anything (and know how they vote, by extension).
Somehow, I don't think tens or hundreds of thousands of people are researching the information others and traversing all over their states looking to commit "voter fraud" by assuming the identity of the other people, particularly given how politically divided we are based on geography (especially in this election). But again, it's essentially a non-issue. Partly because it's so difficult to do.
I also was dismissive of what you call as conspiracy theories/voter fraud before, but ever since this election cycle and the project veritas discovery....I cannot automatically dismiss them.
I will have to analyse the final numbers later when they are released.