Monday, September 20, 2004
How the Church is different from Chicago
I learned this firsthand in 1996, when I registered my wife's cat as a voter in Cook County, Ill., Norfolk County, Mass., and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and then requested absentee ballots from all three venues. My purpose wasn't to cast illegal multiple votes but to demonstrate how vulnerable to manipulation America's election system has become.
It was a simple scam to pull off. "Under the National Voter Registration Act — the `Motor Voter Law' — states are required to accept voter registrations by mail," I wrote at the time. "No longer can citizens be asked to make a trip to town hall or the county office. No longer do they have to provide proof of residence or citizenship. In fact, they don't have to exist. Motor Voter obliges election officials to add to the voter list any name mailed in on a properly filled-out registration form. Anyone so registered can then request an absentee ballot — by mail, of course. The system is not only open to manipulation, it invites it."
I'm sorry, but I don't think that requiring voters to be real will really disenfranchise anyone except the people that don't exist. That's just me, though.
Oh, anyone who understands and explains the title gets a supply of grumblecakes.
It was a simple scam to pull off. "Under the National Voter Registration Act — the `Motor Voter Law' — states are required to accept voter registrations by mail," I wrote at the time. "No longer can citizens be asked to make a trip to town hall or the county office. No longer do they have to provide proof of residence or citizenship. In fact, they don't have to exist. Motor Voter obliges election officials to add to the voter list any name mailed in on a properly filled-out registration form. Anyone so registered can then request an absentee ballot — by mail, of course. The system is not only open to manipulation, it invites it."
I'm sorry, but I don't think that requiring voters to be real will really disenfranchise anyone except the people that don't exist. That's just me, though.
Oh, anyone who understands and explains the title gets a supply of grumblecakes.
