Friday, October 15, 2004

Election Fraud

Love this "balanced" USA Today article which contains a bunch of specific concerns by Democrats about Republican voter suppression and a couple complaints by Republicans about worrying surges in registrations.

There's just one thing I want to make clear. 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.