Not quite time for 'I told-you-so's' on voter fraud (Charlotte Observer via Winston-Salem Journal)

[struggle4progress]

Posted: Monday, April 7, 2014 12:31 pm
The Charlotte Observer

Here come the told-you-so’s. Here come Republicans justifying a bad N.C. voter ID law by pointing to a new report that shows hundreds of cases of potential ballot fraud in our state. If we didn’t know better, we’d think they were downright gleeful that people may have cheated the elections process ...

Slam dunk. Voter fraud. Right?

Not exactly. The report doesn’t say why those names are on the rolls of two states. Strach told a legislative oversight committee that she doesn’t know yet. It could be that people registered to vote in a new state without telling their former state they had left. It could be that those who shared names and birth dates merely had common names. It could be that in the rush of an election, precinct workers made mistakes marking who voted ...

As Strach completes her investigation, we’ll learn if and how and when double voting happened. Then legislators can do what they didn’t do last time – pass a law that stops people from voting illegally, instead of one that suppresses the legal ballots.

http://www.journalnow.com/opinion/editorials/not-quite-time-for-i-told-you-so-s-on/article_1e5ef310-be72-11e3-9c03-001a4bcf6878.html

[wildeyed]

1. People move and don't cancel their old registration.

Or they fill out the part of the NC voter registration form that does cancel the old registration but the state doesn't follow through. They need to prove the people are voting in both states before they yell fraud. Also, not all people know that they are not allowed to vote in both states if they own property in more than both state. I have talked to people like that. They think it is ok to vote twice as long as they only vote once in the federal elections. As if anyone would actually be able to verify that

[SharonAnn]

2. So how would voter IDs and shorter Election periods and fewer voting precincts help?