Admittedly, attempting to do so has been done so many times in this country…
…that someone surveying the situation might be forgiven in thinking that it’s implicitly permitted: but no, we don’t actually want election fraud to happen. When it does – like it did in Pennsylvania – and we can catch them at it, we put the people who did it on trial.
And then, apparently, we have the ACLU wander in and pick the wrong side to defend (via No Sheeples Here). They’ve decided that paying people to commit election fraud is constitutional:
PITTSBURGH — The community organizing and voter registration group Acorn filed a federal lawsuit here Wednesday claiming that a state statute that is being used to prosecute some of its former employees is unconstitutional.
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Acorn hopes the lawsuit will prevent criminal prosecution of its local leaders and office, which have been under investigation by Mr. Zappala’s office for eight months, said Witold Walczak, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, which is representing Acorn.
See also the American Spectator, which in another article notes the real estate links between the NYT and ACORN. Just in case anyone was wondering why the sympathetic tone.