Is it possible to vote twice?

[fencesitter]

I have two residences. I'm registered in one and that's the one I vote in. If I register in the other township can I vote for that districts' representative also? It's not really voting twice since the candidates are different, but the governor and senator are and it would be a double vote for them. I'm sure that would be illegal, but I'll bet it happens alot. I was once registered in another place at the same I was registered here, and I went to the poles in that township. When the national election happened, I went to the poles at my permanent residence. I was still registered in this county.

[VelmaD]

1. there is no evidence that

people voting twice in different locations happens "a lot".

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Yes but I wouldn't brag about it on the internets.

Generally it is, I think, a felony.

[Richard Steele]

3. No. Being registered in 2 places at once is a crime.

[fencesitter]

4. Good thing I moved..

I'm not registered there any longer.

[AlamoDemoc]

6. question: how about having two out of state residential properties?

can you vote on these other states? and I don't mean rental properties?

[VelmaD]

7. No you cannot

You can only be registered to vote in one location.

[Richard Steele]

10. Nope. You have to pick -ONE- address as your 'primary residence'.

Owning more than one home does not give you
more than one vote.

[MADem]

13. Exactly, and it's a crime to falsify your voting info, too

Remember the flak about the Coultergeist's misuse of an address as her voting address?

[Bill McBlueState]

5. it doesn't happen a lot

Sorry, you'd lose your bet. :)

From USA Today: Report refutes fraud at poll sites

WASHINGTON — At a time when many states are instituting new requirements for voter registration and identification, a preliminary report to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission has found little evidence of the type of polling-place fraud those measures seek to stop.

USA TODAY obtained the report from the commission four months after it was delivered by two consultants hired to write it. The commission has not distributed it publicly.

...

The bipartisan report by two consultants to the election commission casts doubt on the problem those laws are intended to address. "There is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling-place fraud, or at least much less than is claimed, including voter impersonation, 'dead' voters, non-citizen voting and felon voters," the report says.

...

[Totally Committed]

8. The better question:

Is it possible to vote ONCE? -- I mean, and have it count.

TC

[Richard Steele]

11. The world may never know.

[bluestateguy]

9. Possible? Yes, but it's illegal.

A few people were caught in 2004 for voting in 2 different states. Being registered in different states can happen due to moving around. It often takes a long time for the County Clerk's office to get around to removing your name from the registration rolls.

[Lefta Dissenter]

12. yikes!

Always a good thing to ask the question prior to acting... and I would agree with the others who said that this doesn't happen as often as some might claim.

As the former Chief Elections Inspector for our Town, and the one to have to (very painfully) bring our voter rolls into compliance with the new Statewide Registration System (whole long horrible story there), I hope that the system would catch anyone who is attempting to vote twice. As much as I want us to win, I want us to win fair and square.

If everyone would just get off their rear end and vote once, we'd have it made!

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

14. Only If You're A repub nt

[razors edge]

15. wonder how long it'll take

for freeps to paste this and distort it?

[DrDebug]

16. Just as long as it takes to distort your signature image

That's more like it :)

[razors edge]

17. dupe

[razors edge]

18. works for me,

may have to change to that one.

Just my first day playing with these, be gentle.

:-)

[DocSavage]

20. Don't

have to distort it. Just take a screen shot and post it. The post pretty much speaks for itself.

[LTR]

19. Very illegal

This very thing brought down a local person here who was running for a state office. He allegedly voted in both Wisconsin and Illinois.

Don't do it, don't even think about it.

[Crabby Appleton]

21. I wouldn't recomend it

Arrests for double voting