Voter fraud should be stopped, absolutely, but candidate fraud needs to stop too. And now that some suspect that the sitting president himself is not eligibe due to country of origin, it becomes just the next bump on the slippery slope when non-citizens gain the right to vote in federal elections; that is after all controlled by the state, not the feds.
Time to say enough is enough, and use the holier-than-thou rhetoric of the Obama supporters against them. Now would be an excellent time to present a bill that required specific qualification criteria for candidates and their voters.
On your first point about primaries, I think that needs to be deferred to states, as the various and sundry laws, as well as timing, do not make for a one-size-fits-all solution, IMO.
gosh sorry for the rant. I guess I am finally feeling the long term stress of feeling politically helpless for so long.
Who is talking about not deferring it to the states? It would seem to me to be up to the state Republican parties to get behind getting rid of the cross-over vote problem in primaries in a manner befitting the respective state laws.