myth buster
2011-09-29 12:13:03
NPV makes it easier by several orders of magnitude. Why? Because if the local government is colluding in the fraud (and this the exact scenario I am concerned about) who will be willing and able to intervene? If Chicago stuffs the ballot box, could Pennsylvania challenge those results? Coming up with a million phantom votes is not hard at all if you have a large city and a corrupt city and state government. Under the current system, there is no point in Chicago stuffing the ballot box for democrats if the statewide election isn’t even close, but under NPV, they would have that incentive to run up the score because each fraudulent vote they tally cancels out a legitimate one somewhere else in the country.
