> Demuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear
TFA explains the other case was nepotism enabled conspiracy:
> Beren, who was charged separately and pleaded guilty in October 2021, was the de facto Judge of Elections and effectively ran the polling places in her division by installing close associates to serve as members of the Board of Elections.
That's something else you couldn't do in a Chicagoland election. You could take a big stack of ballots to a booth and fill them out and file them, but at the end of the day when the polls closed, those ballots would have to match the number of pollbook registrations that used paper ballots. You can't just make those up; you can't vote provisionally with paper ballots, so all those ballots would require pollbook registrations for registered voters.
I don't follow your problem here - there are a ton of people who are registered who never vote, you simply log the votes under the names of people who didn't show up.
All at the end of the evening? If you do it in the middle of the day, and the actual voter shows up, there's a good chance you're spending the night in Cook County Jail.
That's the bit everyone seems to miss. Almost all these hypothetical opportunities for fraud fall apart quickly because they require an actual registered voter to exist but not vote, and the moment that voter walks through the door and is told they already voted, all hell will break loose.
I guess it depends on how literal "all hell will break loose" is defined :). It was worth a story in the news, which is significant. How many of those does it take before it becomes a national headline? Way before we get to enough votes to matter. Imagine in either location it was, say, a dozen people saying that? There'd be calls to invalidate the election results in those areas and redo.
> North Carolina State Board of Elections data shows more than 2,600 voters cast provisional ballots during early voting this year. Around 19% of ballots cast were due to voters--like Prince--who were told they already voted.
> Demuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear
TFA explains the other case was nepotism enabled conspiracy:
> Beren, who was charged separately and pleaded guilty in October 2021, was the de facto Judge of Elections and effectively ran the polling places in her division by installing close associates to serve as members of the Board of Elections.