Dick Polman inspired me today. He challenged us all to consider the significant odds of voter fraud. Republicans are bent on fixing this awful problem, of course, which means they must also be bent on fixing other problems that are about as common. Right?
I thought I'd look at the odds of some different things happening. Let's see how voter fraud stacks up!
-- Being killed in a single year by accidental discharge of firearm: 1 in 330,000
-- Being killed by a shark attack in a single year: 1 in 8 million
-- Monkey randomly typing "fraud": 1 in 11.9 million (because that's 26^5)
-- Being killed by a lightning strike in a single year: 1 in 11.9 million
-- Winning a single drawing of PowerBall: 1 in 175.2 million
-- Two amateur golfers as part of a foursome making a hole in one on the same hole on the same day: 1 in 26 million
-- Being killed by a meteorite or comet in a single year: 1 in 20 million
-- Mass-extinction meteorite hitting Earth in any single year: 1 in 100 million
-- Being killed by a bear in any single year: 1 in 125 million
-- Voter impersonation (allegedly!) occurring by any single voter in a given election cycle: 1 in 87.6 million
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Oh my God! Voter impersonation - the kind that can be stopped by voter ID laws - is slightly more common than extinction of all life on Earth by a meteorite!
Aw man, I hate when mass extinction happens!
Hey, that firearm thing looks kinda significant, so Republicans will surely get to work on that!
Won't they?