If you’re going to use an example of voter fraud as the reason why you need a photo ID bill, and you’re the State Elections Coordinator or the attorney for the State’s Division of Elections, shouldn’t you know the specifics of the case? Tennessee Election Coordinator (and former state Rep.) Mark Goins and attorney Cara Harr do not.
What we know about the Ophelia Ford case is that the three people who plead guilty to faking votes – “two of them cast in the names of dead people†– were poll workers, not voters. And fraud by poll workers is election fraud – not voter fraud.
Election fraud is a systematic effort by those with power to steal an election through vote manipulation and voter suppression. Voter fraud is when a voter attempts to vote more than once or by impersonating someone else.
[...] to steal an election through vote manipulation and/or voter suppression. And even though Mark Goins doesn’t know the specifics of the Ford case, we do – three election workers were caught manipulating the vote. Voters had nothing to do with [...]