Secretary of State Tom Schedler, who survived a primary challenge from a candidate backed by George Soros, keeps an up-to-date voter list on the Internet. One can look up any LIVING voter if he knows his month and day of birth or his zip code. And it has to be the legal first name, not nicknames. Once one dies, his name is deleted from the current list usually within a day or two of his death. There are no DEAD VOTERS on Louisiana rolls. Fraud would be someone voting in place of a voter who stays home, but I don’t see how that can be done on a mass scale. Maybe it can.
We keep falling back on “voter fraud” whenever we lose a race, but it’s a crutch. I find it exasperating: voter fraud just doesn’t exist on any significant level, but if we pretend that it does we don’t have to face up to our mistakes. I’d rather take our lumps and honestly evaluate the race so we don’t repeat our mistakes.
From the outside, it sure seems like the Dems were pushing the “war hero v. whoremonger” meme. That’s a hard one to overcome once settled in, especially when the incumbent Republican governor is seen as such a failure. We needed somebody who could rise above Jindal’s coat tails dragging him down, but Vitter wasn’t the guy.