The author seems like a troll. Vote fraud is a big problem. It is overwhelmingly committed by citizens who have political jobs/contracts as navigators, etc and need to produce the vote to keep their money coming.
They register people to vote without the awareness of the alleged voter. They vote on behalf of that person who isn’t aware.
They themselves register from multiple addresses, from their mom’s address, their girlfriend’s address, their sister’s address, their inlaw’s address, etc.
They identify voters who moved and vote on their behalf. They identify voters who never show up and vote on their behalf.
Then there are the Occupy Wallstreet type college student trust fund kids who think it is a lark, a rush, to mess with the corrupt system. They send vans of students from precinct to precinct that has student housing and vote on behalf of the students who no longer live there. Of course, student housing has extremely high turnover so there is no way for anyone to verify who actually lives there and who doesn’t.
But the big disservice of the author is to emphasize illegals. The reality is that most immigrants are legal; not illegal. So the low education immigrant hears the attacks against illegals and concludes that he can register to vote because he is legal and the idiots like the author give legals a pass.
Does anyone think through what is really happening and how they enable what they deplore?
You make some good points. Perhaps there is a better way, but one might be a national voting database which shows if someone has voted in a state or precinct. That doesn’t help those voting for folks in nursing homes, etc. But it’s a start. More states need to insist on IDs when voting and record the Driver license. Voter fraud laws need to be stronger and those abusing them need to be punished more severely. Voting in the US is a privilege and anyone abusing it should be punished.
OR is all mail vote and WA state went to it a few years ago. I hate it! I liked going in, checking my name off and voting in person. Plus, I think mail-in allows for more fraud.
I remember the last election - some state back east had busloads of people coming in to vote with interpreters (I’m sure there are a lot more where this happens, but this one comes to mind), and IIRC they were all Somalis. I thought to get US citizenship you had to speak English. IMHO if you need an interpreter, you should not be voting in a US election.
What about the motor voter law where anyone that gets a drivers license can register to vote (IIRC that was under Clinton). There are many states that don’t require one to show an ID and if they do, a DL suffices, and at least some states allow illegals to get DLs - I suspect that there has been (and will continue to be) a lot of that going on, especially in states like CA.