And, if you're a Democrat, vote often.
Down in this comments thread, mike g really attacked Bismarck for explaining how stuffing the voter roles leads to voter fraud. But the above linked column by John Fund explains how the mechanism works. The money quote:
He (Jimmy Carter) and other supporters of stricter safeguards to protect voter integrity recognize there are two civil rights in play here. One is the right to cast a ballot without fear or intimidation or artificial barriers. We fought a great struggle in the 1960s to eliminate poll taxes, literacy tests and pass a Voting Rights Act to protect the right to vote. But all Americans have another civil right — the right not to have their ballot canceled out by someone who shouldn't be voting, is voting twice or may not even exist. You can be just as surely disenfranchised by someone canceling out your vote as if someone blocked your entry into a courthouse door where a polling place was located.
I'm sure there will be voter fraud committed this year, particularly in strategic places. And we will not hear a peep from the Left about disenfranchisement. Why? Because when ineligible people vote, they invariably vote Democrat, and making Barack Obama president is the most important thing to them.
But don't let stories of landslides or calling the election early stop you from exercising your right to vote. It's important that all eligible people vote, whether John McCain wins today or not.
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