Hans von Spakovsky is The Heritage Foundation’s manager of its
Election Law Reform Initiative. He has some proposals to reduce voter fraud:
. . .
Fraudsters can steal votes and
change election outcomes in several ways, including: voting in someone else’s
name, registering in multiple locations to vote multiple times in the same
election, voting even though they’re not eligible because they’re felons or
noncitizens, or paying or intimidating people to vote for certain candidates.
Unfortunately, many on the left are
attempting to make election fraud easier by fighting laws that require an ID to
vote. They’ve pushed to get noncitizens and jailed inmates to vote. And they’ve
sued states that have tried to purge their voter rolls of people registered in
multiple states.
How can we fix the problem?
Since states control much of the
electoral process, they must pass laws requiring government-issued IDs to vote.
That ensures people aren’t stealing others’ identities and their right to vote.
States should join voter
registration cross-check programs to identify voters registered in multiple
places. One cross-check program has identified hundreds of thousands of
potential duplicate registrations across 30 states as well as evidence of
illegal double voting.
States should also compare voter
rolls with government records to identify convicted felons and noncitizens who
should be removed from the rolls. And the federal government should cooperate
with these efforts and make Department of Homeland Security and other databases
available to state officials.
. . .
His article is here. Note: In June 2018, the Supreme Court Upheld a controversial Ohio voter purge law.
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