A Stitch in Haste

The New Jersey Attorney General has announced a county-by-county investigation into fraudulent voting, including thousands of votes cast by dead people and thousands more cases of multiple votes, including by people in multiple states (i.e., so-called "snowbird voters"):

More than 6,500 voters cast ballots in New Jersey and another state in last November's election, while 4,755 ballots were cast by deceased voters, according to Republican State Committee Chairman Tom Wilson.

In addition, 54,601 people are registered to vote in two New Jersey counties, and 4,397 of them cast ballots in both places last fall, Wilson said.

Make no mistake about it -- this is intentional voter fraud. It can be eliminated trivially with three simple changes, all of which were included in the recent report of the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform:

1. Require photo ID, preferably government voter ID, to vote in person. To avoid the "poll tax" fallacy currently being perpetrated by opponents of Georgia's new voter ID law, allow anyone without a satisfactory ID to acquire one for free.

2. Move to statewide voter registration to avoid cross-county voting within a state.

3. Allow states to compare voter registration rolls to eliminate snowbird voting.

Not one valid vote would be disturbed by any of these three simple rules. Many, if not most, invalid votes would be.

I vote "yea," not to mention "yay!"