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masterplum posted...

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You think crimes involving election fraud are less concerning than crimes that are personal in nature when it comes to politics?

Is misrepresenting your place of residence election fraud? When I think election fraud I think illegally inflating or suppressing the vote. But I'll set aside the semantics here and say it should certainly be disqualifying even if I think a philosophical argument exists that a constituency should be free to elect a representative for themselves even if they don't live there. (Same kinda lines to which I would argue term limits are anti-democratic)

But do I, for example, think the crime of saying you live in a district you don't (which appears to be due to redistricting) is less concerning than a crime "of a personal nature" when said personal nature is, say, "grooming and raping an adopted minor" ( https://www.thedailybeast.com/south-dakota-state-senate-candidate-joel-koskan-accused-of-molesting-family-member ) like the story I posted the other day? Yeah.

tl;dr: Given I have some philosophical issues with questions of candidate eligibility, yeah, I would personally consider a crime of that nature to be less concerning than some other types of crime. I'm not saying you should get away with it at all, but I'm also not putting it in the same category as illegally modifying a vote count which is where I think most people go to when you say "election fraud."