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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yes, Bernie Won Every Poll On the Internet. Hillary Still Won the Debate. [View all]stone space
(6,498 posts)27. Depends on the person, doesn't it?
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
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Yes, Bernie Won Every Poll On the Internet. Hillary Still Won the Debate. [View all]
wyldwolf
Oct 2015
OP
There's no way of establishing whether self-selection obscures the real picture.
sibelian
Oct 2015
#13
You are a neutral observer? Get real, you are aggressively pro Clinton and long
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#21
That's tantamount to arguing that unless we can predict the exact temperature in 2050,
DanTex
Oct 2015
#10
Nobody uses surveys to determine who runs the country. They have actual elections for that.
DanTex
Oct 2015
#15