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stone space

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27. Depends on the person, doesn't it?
Thu Oct 15, 2015, 10:56 AM
Oct 2015
How many times can one person vote in an election?


Kelli Jo Fowler voted once. But had she not voted at all, that would have been a source of error in the final tally.





I Was Arrested for Voting

11/07/2014

By Kelli Jo Griffin at 12:01pm

On Election Day in 2013, I took my four children with me to watch me register to vote and cast my ballot in a city election in my small town in Iowa. Earlier that day, my daughter's class learned about the meaning of democracy and the importance of elections.

Two months after I cast my ballot as a civics lesson for my daughter, the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation agents parked across the street from my house, questioned me, and eventually arrested me and charged me with voter fraud.

Let me explain: When I was convicted on a nonviolent drug charge in 2008, my defense attorney told me that once I served my probation, I would regain my right to vote automatically – correct information at the time. But Gov. Terry Branstad suddenly changed the rules in 2011, and now all citizens with a felony conviction lose their voting rights for life. Our Secretary of State Matt Schultz, in fact, has made this subversion of democracy a point of pride. He has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars hunting down and prosecuting people with past convictions who unknowingly registered or cast a vote.

Including me.

I explained that I did not know about the rule change, but the local county attorney insisted on prosecuting me, spending thousands of taxpayers' money to try to send me to jail – away from my husband and young children for up to 15 years. Knowing that I had not committed a crime, I withstood the crippling expense and emotional roller coaster of a trial instead of accepting a plea deal for a crime I knew I did not commit. Finally, three months later, I was acquitted by a jury of my peers. It only took them 40 minutes to come to that decision. I cried with relief as I heard the verdict.

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https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/i-was-arrested-voting
Wrong. Bernie won. Here's why. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #1
Wrong. Bernie lost. Here's why. wyldwolf Oct 2015 #2
Thaaaat's just a link to this OP, wyldwolf. sibelian Oct 2015 #5
And his link was just biased DUer's opinion wyldwolf Oct 2015 #6
And yours is what? sibelian Oct 2015 #8
Facts on Internet polling wyldwolf Oct 2015 #11
There's no way of establishing whether self-selection obscures the real picture. sibelian Oct 2015 #13
I don't think you know what "facts" mean. n/t Dawgs Oct 2015 #23
You are a neutral observer? Get real, you are aggressively pro Clinton and long TheKentuckian Oct 2015 #21
The focus on personalities is kind of missing the whole point. stone space Oct 2015 #3
True but another big issue is... wyldwolf Oct 2015 #4
The election is a self selected poll, with its own built-in errors. stone space Oct 2015 #7
But much less so than Internet polls wyldwolf Oct 2015 #9
not in 85 to 15 madokie Oct 2015 #17
There was a poll on msnbc.com that showed 85% mythology Oct 2015 #22
That's tantamount to arguing that unless we can predict the exact temperature in 2050, DanTex Oct 2015 #10
No, not really. stone space Oct 2015 #12
Nobody uses surveys to determine who runs the country. They have actual elections for that. DanTex Oct 2015 #15
Elections ARE surveys. stone space Oct 2015 #16
Yes, that's true, but they aren't phone surveys or internet surveys. DanTex Oct 2015 #19
How many times can one person vote in an election? sufrommich Oct 2015 #25
Depends on the person, doesn't it? stone space Oct 2015 #27
Please Cosmocat Oct 2015 #34
I won. bigwillq Oct 2015 #14
Hillary was more polished I agree madokie Oct 2015 #18
I agree on all points Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #24
Counter-intuitive though it seems, they both won. Kentonio Oct 2015 #20
Good answer, and welcome to DU. ColesCountyDem Oct 2015 #26
Thanks Kentonio Oct 2015 #30
His article is half right thesquanderer Oct 2015 #28
Slate: catnhatnh Oct 2015 #29
Hillary "won" Cosmocat Oct 2015 #31
Hillary did better than expectations, but she did not win. That's nonsense. She was just average. reformist2 Oct 2015 #32
Hey, remember, Al Gore won the 3rd debate WhaTHellsgoingonhere Oct 2015 #33
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