Electoral fraud

Inside the building there were 20 to 30-year-old working making millions of dollars a year. Madoff “company” was run by Madoff family members like his two sons and brother. Where the actual fraud was taking place was in the 17th floor by Frank DiPascali. DiPascali would get word to Madoff which made him important. Fraud is another key term used in Chapter 12 that this documentary uses. Madoff was getting money through false advertisement of what he was doing. After statements were printed…

Deception is an ordinary and ubiquitous fact of everyday life, as both verbal and non-verbal social behavior of human nature (1). Earliest representations of feigned madness appear within texts as old as the Bible (2) and the first reference to malingering from medicine can be found in “On Feigned Disease and the detection of them” by Galen in 2nd century AD (3). An individual’s deceptive behavior becomes clinically significant when it is encountered in medical settings if the individual is a…

financial statements are free of material misstatement whether caused by error or fraud. The Auditor has standards of fieldwork that should be used as a guide to fulfill their responsibility. These standards are covered in SAS 99. Fraud is the intentional act that results in a material misstatement in financial statements that are the subject of an audit. There are two types of misstatements relevant to the consideration of fraud, Misstatements arising from fraudulent financial reporting and…

President and Vice President aren’t voted for on Election Day in November, but instead are voted for on the second Thursday of December of election year (Electoral College). This unique aspect to the American presidential election was originally intended to prevent the population from making an irresponsible…

by specified civic leaders, and the right to elect a president through the process of voting. The electoral process can be approached in various ways. For some elections, popular vote is used. Nonetheless, the electoral college system is exercised for presidential elections. The structure and function of electoral college is based in the Constitution. Popular vote is, in part, applied to the electoral college process. However, the method does not quantify the individual vote the way popular vote…

Nasty political mud-slinging. Campaign attacks and person insults. These are some of the words used to describe the outrageous election between two very bitter candidates. Although this sounds rather similar to the present-day elections of 2016, it actually describes an election that took place more than two hundred years ago. This shocking election is told by Edward Larson in his narrative of the election of 1800. Edward Larson was born in 1953 and is an American historian and a legal scholar.…

currently has 29 Electoral votes along with New York. California has 55 and Texas has 38 and Florida and New York are tied for third place for the most Electoral votes based on the 2010 Census. Most states use the all or nothing approach. The state will cast its vote for only one candidate. While Maine and Nebraska may split their vote proportionately. “Unlike other states Maine and Nebraska are different because they use a congressional district method for voting,”( Split Electoral Votes).…

battle ground states or swing states. The states that are pro republican or pro democratic can affect the candidates positively or negatively, in this way the Electoral College can affect presidential campaigning, reason being one candidate has the support of a state giving a disadvantage to the other candidate and vice versa. The Electoral College has been around for over 200 years and has proven to be effective, but there is also other methods of selecting a president, the other method being…

George Bush by 500,000 votes. The game changer in this situation was the twenty-five electoral votes Florida attained. Since Bush obtained a small majority of Florida voters over Gore, he took the twenty-five electoral votes. In turn, Democrat Al Gore went from being the popular vote victor to the election loser. Overall, although Gore won more popular votes, Bush obtained more electoral votes. Regarding the Electoral College, Plutzer mentions how “Under the current system, when a candidate wins…

The time for the Electoral College has passed as the times have progressed. As technology has advanced, the spread of information has become as simple and fast. When the founding fathers implemented the system, it made sense because most of the population was illiterate and uninformed; the early Americans needed a leader make the best decision on their behalf. Today, the American citizens are educated and have the means to make the correct decision for themselves. Popular vote should be the…