One of the biggest deterrents to voter fraud is to actually prosecute the crime and take the crime seriously. That is what happened recently in West Virginia as a federal judge lowers the boom on a defendant for lying to investigators looking into absentee fraud.
A federal judge sentenced a former West Virginia count official to nearly two years in prison on Thursday partly as a warning that election fraud must stop in the state.
…”I hope that this sent a message, a very simple message
that you can’t steal elections in the southern district of West Virginia, and
if you try you’ll go to jail,” Goodwin said.Several in the courtroom gasped when Johnston announced the
prison term, but some others nodded their heads when he spoke of a need to
deter the fraud that has poisoned elections in that region for decades.