Of course there is voter fraud. Apparently the writer of this editorial hasn't paid attention to the news immediately before and after an election.
My honest guess is that across the entire nation...we are talking about 400,000 votes that are in the fraud category. This involves guys who vote in two states or more....the guys who register their whacked-out older relatives to vote when the relative can't pass a mental test...the poll mafia who arranges for non-citizens to walk in and vote...the folks who live in Florida six months out of the year and call it home yet they live in New Jersey as well thus voting by absentee ballots in both states...and finally the group who simply arranges absentee ballots for people who are actually dead.
So if we all agree that 400,00 votes are being tossed around...does it bother anyone? Doesn't matter if you are liberal or conservitive....does it really bother you? Would approve of a democracy where dead people's votes actually count? Would you approve of 1,000 non-Americans walking into a Seattle polling station and voting there? Would you have a problem with your uncle who registers his mentally deranged wife who sits in a mental hospital as a voter? Would you have a problem with your nephrew who votes by absentee in his home state, but also votes in Florida at the local campus?
Its a simple yes or no answer situation....does these things bother you? If so....then....I guess this Loch Ness monster has to be actually caught in the act. My simple suggestion is to add some flavor to presidential year voting...any illegal actions by poll station monitors or by voters (like registering in two states)...then give them a simple 2-year sentence in a state jail for each occurance...and take away their vote for 20 years. There isn't a need to be sorrowful about these characters...they earn their situation.
The two biggest areas of voter fraud are: absentee ballots, whereby up to 30-percent of votes cast in some heavily Dem districts were absentee. (Am right now looking for the in-depth investigation done two years ago which exposed this dirty little secret.
The other fraud area is in big cities where the GOP has no or very few representatives, (mostly in heavily Union controlled districts) which are essential to poll watch, and/or to check voter lists.
The Phila Inquirer (a lib paper, no less) ran an article in 2000 which chronicled how some voting Philadelphia voting booth precincts were set up (legally) in back rooms of bars, or in several cases, in homes (they claimed lack of space. I'm not kidding)
I know you can claim that this is all antedoctal evidence, but I know what I read. I just have to find the year and date, and the exact specifics.