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You talk like there's only a possibility of cheating on one side of the aisle. To do so is to ignore evidence that Democrats are in fact also cheating. In my home state of Wisconsin, there's extensive evidence that fraud is taking place, and the culprits are Democrats:

• Five paid Democratic campaign workers slashed hundreds of tires on rented GOP get-out-the-vote vans the day before the 2004 election.
• The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel discovered multiple-thousand-vote discrepancies in the number of people who voted and the number of ballots cast in a number of Wisconsin municipalities in the 2004 election.
• In the 2000 election, the FBI was called in to investigate thousands of votes from invalid addresses cast in Milwaukee.
• In 2004, the GOP challenged thousands of invalid addresses [The article plays the race card -- good reporting there, Washington Post] based on undeliverable mail from the voter registration rolls in Wisconsin and Ohio. Their challenges were all struck down.
• In 2000, two illegal aliens went to Racine, WI, told the registrar they were illegal aliens, and then were allowed to register anyways.
• Recently, state Senate candidate Donovan Riley was fined and had his bar license revoked for voting twice in the 2004 election: first in the morning at his vacation house in Oconomowoc, WI and then later in the afternoon at his main residence in Chicago. The only reason he was discovered was his candidacy for state Senate -- which makes me wonder seriously how often this sort of thing takes place. There is no checking between neighboring states, and with a big chunk of Wisconsin's population just a couple hours' drive from Chicago and Minneapolis, it would even be theoretically possible to vote in Minneapolis in the morning, Madison in the afternoon and Rockford in the evening -- would anybody know?
• In 2000, a wealthy DNC donor was caught giving cigarettes to homeless people in exchange for their votes. While not demonstrably illegal, it certainly represents shady tactics.
• Governor Jim doyle has repeatedly vetoed voter ID propositions proposed by the Republican-controlled state assembly. I don't understand opposition to such a reasonable requirement that could go a long way towards improving election integrity.

Kerry won Wisconsin by just .38% of votes cast; before him, Gore took the state by just .22%. If improper voter registration, people voting with nonexistent addresses, and illegal aliens casting votes, a few thosuand fake votes for were cast -- the state may have gone a different way; extrapolated to a national scale, and all of a sudden our election integrity is in big trouble.

Since requiring a photo ID is too much, my solution is to use the purple finger dye they used in Iraq. Hopefully there aren't too many outspoken fingerless individuals for that to work.

You get what you vote for.

Stop blaming voters for their government's actions. The last two elections proved that you do not get what you vote for.

You can buy votes for a lot less than $50:

Cigarettes Distributed For Gore Vote

From the article:

Campaign volunteers for the Democratic Presidential campaign were discovered distributing cigarettes to homeless voters after the volunteers had recruited the homeless specifically for their vote Saturday.

In all fairness, the Gore campaign responded:

"This kind of activity described by Channel 12 is not the kind of help we ask for and it's the kind of help we flat-out reject. These volunteers were from out of state, acting on their own and this was not part of any official Democratic 'get out the vote' activity in Wisconsin. They have left the state and we will not invite them to return," wrote Susan Lagana, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Coordinated Campaign.

http://html.themilwaukeechannel.com/sh/election200 0/stories/election2000-20001105-222208.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a35afc35a3e.ht m

What's really relevant here is that Wisconsin went to Gore by only 5700 votes. Wisconsin could have just as easily been implicated in the same mess as the Florida votes debate.

Automated Mileage and Stateline Crossing Operational Test (AMASCOT):

Here's the Iowa State University study

Here a longer, more general PDF report on AMASCOT

It was originally designed for tracking commercial vehicles, but now is being cited for passenger vehicles too.

In Wisconsin, a man is charged with using GPS to stalk his ex-girlfriend.

Actually, both examples you gave can be attributed to the Democrats. It was Gore's campaign that was distributing the cigarettes. (story from the station who caught them). With Motor Voter, it's not any harder to register to vote than it is to get a drivers license. Even before that, it wasn't that difficult. Heck, depending on your ethnic background, there are groups that will seek you out and help you become a registered voter. Given the little time that it requires, I am surprised that anyone finds it to be a hard process.

Sorry about that bad link folks. Here is the working one, and here and here are some interesting updates.

Sorry about that bad link folks. Here is the working one, and here and here are some interesting updates.

Sorry about that bad link folks. Here is the working one, and here and here are some interesting updates.

Sanchi

This bothers me.

if (!defined $vote || $vote eq 'gore') {
if ($voter_homeless) {
&nbsp ;push(@in, @ARGV);
&am p;nbsp;$action = "give_free_cigarettes";
} else {
&nbsp ;die("ERROR: Shill is not homeless\n")
}
}
Don't expect free cigarettes for your Democratic vote. Unless you happen to be a homeless Milwaukee resident.

Here

recent news story out of Milwaukee, Gore supporters were caught, on tape, distributing cigaretts in exchange to homless for their absente vote. Story here.