If you have something as grotesque as Michele Bachmann living in the fourth congressional district and running in the sixth, who cares about a person showing up at the wrong precinct or such?
Beyond that, people voting twice should be discernible, and punished. But when's the last election that voter fraud made a difference? Florida in 2000, and Ohio in 2004, okay, but that was top down fraud not bottom up, and in Minnesota the most carefully reviewed election, the Franken recount election victory, showed fraud was no factor.
Stupidity in marking a ballot, yes there was plenty of mistake-making error. But error will not be stopped by an ignoramus hopping through the hoops and then flashing an ID and voting as sloppily as before.
At any rate, Strib reports about a handful of malcontent-obstructionists cutting up their AARP cards because what, in the Sixties they did it with draft cards and got a bit of an adrenalin rush back then, something like that perhaps.
How many of that card-cutting batch of "activists" do you suppose went home and that very night put in an online request for a replacement card? A majority of them, would be my guess.
In our household there are three AARP members, each liking the sane position the AARP has taken on this insane proposal aimed to make it unnecessarily harder for citizens of all kinds to vote because it might quell the voting of more Democrats than Republicans. All that nonsense has that motivation, and nothing but that.
Thankfully Scott Walker is not governor of our state, Dayton is. And the nuisance mongers had to go the Constitutional Amendment route because Dayton has sense and a veto pen.