[Jayde]

Although I seldom reply, I have been reading Free Republic on a daily basis for years. I am very worried about this kind of voter fraud and really want to comment. I hope this is OK.

Each state's voter registration card requires signing an oath stating that all the information filled in on the card is true and that the person meets the state requirements to vote in that state. It states within this oath that it is a crime to register if the person is not qualified to vote. So, someone has already committed a crime when information on the voter registration card is deliberately false or the signature is not the signature of the person whose name in on the card.

When there is intent to commit voter fraud, the person who fills out the card in someone else's name may requests an absentee ballot and then vote many times - several people organized to do this could change the outcome of an election in a state.

I hope election officials are on top of this and that the offenders have to pay the maximum penalty.

[pctech]

Evidently there are folks who are not afraid getting caught, or know they won't be caught. Whatever the reason, I am afraid for this years elections and I hope GWB's re-election bid is a landslide so this won't make a difference this time around. But there better be some kind of federal review and overhaul of the voting system for the next one.