So... you don't see any chance that the grand jury reached their decision without KKK involvement? What about aliens? or the Illuminati? Maybe the Trilateral Commission?

I think Occam's razor is more likely.

Correct, though career choice is also a major factor.

Back in college I'd noticed that my Computer Science program was probably 90% male... while the Elementary Education program was probably 90% female. While many will claim that teachers should be paid more, I don't hear many arguing they should be paid as well as your average developer.

Damn you for using logic and facts.

The powers that be like to tout how background checks have prevented some untold number of bad guys from getting guns... often left out is the woefully small # of prosecutions of said people for their illegal attempts to acquire a firearm.

When the penalty on the books is rarely enforced, it quite easy to look for other ways to do what you want to do and know that you probably aren't going to get caught... a problem that has existed in the voting world for years: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Give me a single solid example - voter validation leaves a paper trail, so the evidence should be easy to come by.

Utter BS!

What paper trail? You walk in, say you are Joe Blow, live at a given street, make your mark and you get a ballot... the only way you know that this was done fraudulently is if the real Joe Blow comes in later to vote and told that he already did... which mathematically wouldn't always happen depending on how well a fraudulent voter picked their targets.

Want cases of people who were told they already voted? Here are a couple:
http://www.nbc12.com/story/199...
http://www.examiner.com/articl...
And even from Scotland: http://www.itv.com/news/update...

At the end of the day, so long as you keep your mouth shut (unlike this woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) you probably aren't going to get caught: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local... as you don't exactly see many cameras in polling stations synced up to when given names are scratches off as having voted.

This all assumes it's hard to get someone else's ballot, (spoiler: it isn't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Why not an all of the above solution?

Validate that the person registering is who they say they are and eligible to vote... and again at the polling place to ensure that someone isn't trying to vote in the name of another?

How many polling places do you know that ask for a registration card on election day?

More so, unfortunately plenty of people are accidently registered to vote (as one example): http://jacksonville.com/news/f...

They can easily man in the middle it.

Remember that ISP crapware they installed on your parents PC in order to connect them... did they or you make sure there wasn't a rouge CA in there?

A bit of upfront coding, a few stolen credit card numbers and spinning up a few hundred instances in AWS to scan for exploitable routers seems rather cheap to me.

but I fail to see why an otherwise able bodied adult should regard a trip to the polling place as onerous.

But... but... but... your toilet might overflow!

We have a system today where we are told it's just too hard to come up with a photo id and show up to the polling station on election day.

Given the degree of laziness and helplessness that the electorate is told it has... is it no wonder that some think that voting from the comfort of your home and on your own PC might be a good thing?

Gimme a old school paper ballot and an oval to fill in after showing my id any day.

You don't need to know the specifics of each and every router... just one or two which there are enough of that you can identify and exploit remotely.

Coming up with a single fake drivers license and voting gets you only a single vote... exploiting say... the standard ISP provided router may be a bit harder... it will get you far more votes and less visibility.

From TFA:

PDF ballots have been used in Internet voting trials in Alaska, and in New Jersey as an voting alternative for those displaced by Hurricane Sandy.

How much did this plug cost Timothy?

That depends on the person and their tolerance/self-control.