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This answer could be improved by clarifying how much fraud would be needed to turn the 2016 election. According to your link, that is about 78 thousand in three counties. Knowing where to cheat in advance and also ensuring that fraud survives recounts and audits is an exercise for the reader.
– Joel Harmon
Commented Jul 31, 2020 at 23:57
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@AffableAmbler I agree to the absurdity of it. At the national level, it's simply a boogeyman.
– Cort Ammon
Commented Aug 1, 2020 at 0:48
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In Washington, you may cancel your ballot and get a new one. So it would be pretty easy to avert those first cases, make it a functionally useless way to conduct voter fraud (even more so than it already is).
– Azor Ahai -him-
Commented Aug 1, 2020 at 1:34
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@puppetsock Exactly zero, which the answer makes pretty abundantly clear.
– zibadawa timmy
Commented Aug 6, 2020 at 0:41
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@BobE I considered the argument pretty trivial. It is always easier to do more fraudulent behavior when restrictions are relaxed. That being said, I hope it came through clearly that my primary argument is a frame challenge that says it doesn't matter, because it would have to increase fraud by multiple orders of magnitude before it could materially change an election.
– Cort Ammon
Commented Aug 6, 2020 at 3:19

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