Motor Voter Fraud

Jeff Jacoby, the lonely conservative at the Boston Globe, has written about election fraud before. In 1996 he registered his wife's cat in three states and requested and got absentee ballots from all three venues. He did this to point out the election fraud possibilities of the Motor Voter law very dear to Clinton and the Democrats who crafted and passed it as a priority in Clinton's first term. They never had a chance to enact Pt. II which would have been some sort of measure to allow voting at work so that poll scrutiny of multiple voters would be less likely to discover election fraud. The fraud is very real as he points out in his column.

As journalist John Fund shows in an alarming new book, 'Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy,' the United States has an elections system that would be an embarrassment in Honduras or Ghana. It is so unpoliced, he writes, that at least eight of the 9/11 hijackers 'were actually able to register to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their deadly preparations.

Double voting - registering in two different states - is pathetically easy. It's done on university campuses all the time. It's a safe bet, too, that the elite who live in New York also vote in their second home residences. (It's comforting to think that's why Connecticut and Vermont have such screwy politics otherwise it's hard to imagine why anyone would want such disastrously bad governance.)

Jacoby suggests I.D. at a minimum when voting. I think a thumb print and I.D. are better safeguards. I bet those hijackers had exquisitely crafted I.D. I know they all had valid drivers licenses. But a thumb print is a signature to a felony.