I managed a polling site in an urban county for the County Clerk. The only reason I know that at least one legal resident, but non-citizen, voted illegally, was because he asked for a new ballot after mismarking the one he was given.
The reason this man asked for a new ballot, is because, as he told the poll worker, "he was only allowed to vote in Federal races, and he had accidently voted in the other ones." This was his honest belief, I felt sad on numerous levels. I referred this to our District Attorney, but I never did follow up what happened.
Side note, if you ever want to lose faith in democracy, volunteer as a poll worker.
https://vdare.com/posts/immigration-voter-fraud-and-american-democracy
i managed a polling site in '04. i certainly didn't take it for granted, but it was a 16+hr day and it's hard to not be a little wiped out after the 10th or 11th hour.
then this 90+ year old lady comes in. her family came to America from China to escape some bullshit back in the 20's. she had a framed photograph of her and her family with whatever official administered their citizenship oath. she said she voted in every election, always in person, and always brought that pic with her. i had such a hard time not visibly tearing up while she talked. it was also one helluva motivator/energy boost for me.
there were a couple similar experiences, but that was by far the most moving. words can't express how much i hate those who fuck around with our elections and abuse the faith of average Americans who believe in this country.
edited to add: not that there weren't facepalm moments where it was hard not to ask a voter how they even managed to leave their house or if they even feed themselves, but...
Oh, I totally understand. One of the worst moments I had like this was a woman, obviously with the mental capacity of a child and perhaps with Down Syndrome, crying because she messed up her ballot, and wanted a new one, and was disappointing her mom who had told her who to vote for. Woman was crying on me. She had "overvoted" that is, voted for more than one candidate in a race. The scanner had rejected it.
Mom, who was there, was pissed when I told her "nobody can force you to vote, and if you don't want a new ballot, you are free to leave." Retarded woman left the polling place to wait outside, very relived. Mom wasn't happy. Before I trashed the messed up ballot, I saw it was marked up for democrats.
My grandmother before she passed from the Vax, voted in many elections. She was entirely senile and didn't even know where she was. My uncle filled out all the ballots because my mom outright refused. Straight democrat, of course. Though when she was with it, I'm pretty sure she voted dem. Still, we were disgusted.
I only recently started voting again after running for office in 2002 (so much corruption that I refused to continue voting and that was local). My bf talked me into it and of course our first election was the Kari Lake debacle. Just as corrupt as ever.
Did you see how in WI, the official investigation into the 2020 election showed how nursing home patients, in the condition of your grandmother, were recorded as voting. Family members when they found out about it during the investigation were shocked and wondered who was perpetrating the fraud. Of course, zero arrests.
I only vote in the general election because it makes it harder for them to cheat, or in a local mayoral election where the parties are not involved. I have very little faith that we have anything approaching a clean system where the will of the voters is actually represented in at the very least, candidate selection.
Yep! I'm sure the nursing home fraud is wide-spread.
I've given up and just vote, now, even though I know it's meaningless. We'll see where our most recent local election goes. The results should be in shortly. We were to vote on whether the mayor's developer friend gets money, land, and rezoning for an "entertainment district" that none of us want. Man, the way they spun that on the signs around town was crazy.