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Arlen Specter: “How do you prosecute someone where there is a registration by signature and then subsequent voting by signature? ...…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2002
How do you prosecute someone where there is a registration by signature and then subsequent voting by signature? ... Graveyard voting is very popular in Philadelphia--voting people who have died. It is also very popular to have people registered by signature who were never in existence. ... To have a prosecution, you have to have a defendant, you have to have a warrant of arrest identifying somebody, and you have to pick somebody up. How can there possibly be a prosecution for someone who sends in a signature of somebody who never existed?
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Arlen Specter
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Discussing challenges in prosecuting vote fraud cases during a Senate debate.

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