Jeri comments on CT Voter Laws proposed changes

Voter fraud is proved (when it's pursued) AFTER the fact - ballots are counted and elections are certified many times years before the fraud is proved.  It's too late to turn back. Nationally, the overwhelming majority of ineligible voters who evade detection arise out of - you guessed it- Election Day Registration. The area of voter activity that gives rise to the runner-up for voter fraud arises out of Absentee Ballot abuse. Election Day Registration has NO mechanism to detect or prevent ineligible voters before the vote. The primary source of available evidence of false identity in voting comes from the returned postal verification cards AFTER THE FACT and prosecution is impossible after the fact, the election has already been called!  In North Carolina, where we have heard about the impressive increase in voting as a result of Election Day Registration, it was discovered that there were 24,821 invalid driver's license numbers, 700 invalid Social Security numbers, 380 people who appeared to have voted after their deaths and a handful of votes cast by 17-year-olds. (Gaps in Voter Registration Process Raises Concerns of Fraud http://lincolntribune.com/?p=178) So, the idea that there was an increase in the number of votes cast is technically factual but the data would be more completely reported with the factor of actual qualified votes cast! Why add more uncertainty to the question of voter integrity when, according to the PEW report released on 2-14-2012 which found - -24 million (1 out of 8) voter registrations in the US are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate -More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters -Approximately 2.75 million people are registered in more than one state. If you are serious about addressing voting rights...distinguish between disenfranchise and misenfranchise and focus on each equally.  Make sure that each eligible voter who votes does not have that vote compromised by the admission of ineligible votes.  Address the current abuses before even thinking of expanding the means, methods and opportunity for those with motive to corrupt the process. The statement made earlier that there is no evidence of voter fraud in Connecticut is simply wrong. Look at the Connecticut Post article of 10/22/2011 which covers just the fraud associated with Absentee Ballots in Bridgeport.  Imagine if all the varieties of voter fraud (multiple votes cast per person, dead people voting, stealing another person's identity) and all the communities in Connecticut were covered - we'd have an entire BOOK of evidence of voter fraud in Connecticut! If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?  If voter fraud occurs and no one detects it, does it affect an election?