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I predict there will be allegations and evidence of vote tampering attributable to both parties. If one is a conspiracy theorist, one could imagine operatives from one party actually doing some tampering on behalf of the other party (with puppets with the "correct" party registration set up to take the blame), so that they can plausibly make the claim that there was cheating on both sides and "it all evens out." This assertion cannot be given any weight, or vote tampering becomes even more highly incentivized.

Where I am hearing this "it all evens out" argument at present is by Republicans, in response to some pretty powerful evidence that large numbers of Democratic voter registration forms have been systematically destroyed in many important states. Republicans point to surges in voter registration in these same states and allege that the Democrats are manipulating the process as well and "it all evens out." The most powerful illustrative evidence of alleged Democratic misbehavior they offer are districts in which registration is preternaturally high with respect to the adult population. Yet Atrios reminds us:

"Every election year Republicans start pointing to counties where there are more registered voters than eligible ones. Okay, very slowly people. This happens. People die, and rarely call their local election board to inform them of that fact. People move, without bothering to tell their local election board. Often when they move they fail to re-register, or if they do re-register their new election board doesn't bother to inform their old one."

"Do inflated voter rolls open up the possibility of voter fraud? Sure. But inflated voter rolls are not evidence of voter registration fraud."