Voter Fraud
While Kerry sets up the post-election "they stole the election" rallying cry, some are concerned that our system allows for voter fraud:Sloppy enough, notes John Fund, author of the new book "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Undermines Our Democracy," that at least eight of the 19 hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon three years ago were registered to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their preparations for 9/11.We saw it in Florida in 2000(5,000 cons voted along with a host of illegals) and South Dakota in 2002 (hundreds of non-existent and dead Indians voted). This is damn silly. Who among us can't prove we are a citizen? Bring a picture ID or stay home.According to Fund:
Some of the sloppiness that makes fraud and foul-ups in election counts possible seems to be built into the system by design. The "Motor Voter Law," the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Clinton upon entering office, imposed fraud-friendly rules on the states by requiring driver’s license bureaus to register anyone applying for licenses, to offer mail-in registration with no identification needed, and to forbid government workers to challenge new registrants, while making it difficult to purge "deadwood" voters (those who have died or moved away).
Of course, if the dead couldn't vote then there would be very few Democrats in office.
Blog post #3615 in category
Politics
posted 15 September 04