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October 12, 2006
More Voter Registration Fraud
I suppose that there could be legitimate reasons for voter registration drives, but are they really that necessary? You can already get voter restration cards everywhere from the DMV to your local public library plus the fact that you can always call up the local registrar and ask for one. Except for the very immobile like the elderly, it really does not take much of an effort to register to vote. Yet there are constant attempts to get millions of people to registar who showed no previous amount of civic duty to take five minutes to do it on their own. Are people unwilling to take five minutes to register to vote on their own even going to make well reasoned votes? As someone who thinks that you should only vote if you can make an informed choice (note that is a moral not a legal proscription) I always find these get more people to register/vote drives rather off base.
Anyways, one of these voter registration drives in St. Louis has once again been caught signing up thousands of fraudulent registrations, including registering children, dead people, multiple registrations, and using forged signatures. Hopefully there will be some people going to jail over this. The AP reports:
ST. LOUIS - Election officials say hundreds of potentially bogus registration cards, including ones for dead and underage people, were submitted by a branch of a national group that has been criticized in the past for similar offenses.At least 1,500 potentially fraudulent registration cards were turned in by the St. Louis branch of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, leading up to Wednesday's registration deadline for the Nov. 7 election, said Kim Mathis, chairwoman of the St. Louis City Board of Election Commissioners.
Posted by Pete at October 12, 2006 07:56 AM
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