A Move Towards Online Voting

A new report on rampant voter fraud seems to support a move away from the old voting ways.The Pew Center on the States has issued a report that found 1.8-million Americans who are dead are registered to vote. Here in New Jersey, Democrats in the state admit there is voter fraud.

Townsquare's Stacy Proebstle covered this story on New Jersey voter fraud.

Earlier this week, I talked about the chronic and ongoing problem in New Jersey and across the nation of low voter turnout. I mentioned that a system that would allow voters to make their election day choices by voting online would, in my opinion, put the spurs to voter turnout. I also conceded that there has always been a concern about an online system of voting being hacked or being susceptible to voter fraud.

But I also mentioned, in defense of online voting, that voter fraud already exists. Certainly the Pew Center report, called, "Inaccurate, Costly and Inefficient" backs me up. The Pew people found almost three-million people in the U.S. registered to vote in more than one state.

David Becker, the author of the Pew Report, would not go so far as to suggest his research indicates a voter fraud problem. But the Pew report also suggested that states such as New Jersey might seek a faster, more efficient alternative to paper voter registrations with some type of database that could be quickly and accurately cross-checked for mistakes or duplication.

Ah! There it is again! Using the computer, using digital technology to replace that creaky old system of records and papers and files in drawers that is already shot full of holes.

1.8-million dead Americans registered to vote.

Reminds me of an old election night joke. These two party workers are sitting in the middle of the cemetery on election night, copying down the names they see on grave markers and adding them to the vote tally for their candidate to, shall we say?... enhance their chances of winning the election that night? Anyway, one of the pair encounters a weathered tombstone with the name obscured by the elements and time. He says to his partner, "oh well, I can't use this name, I cannot quite make it out. " The other worker replies, "oh no, do your best. That guy has every bit as much right to vote as everyone else here."

So in getting out the vote, cutting voter fraud and bringing the people back to the polls in an honest, fair and practical way, we should, "leave no stone unturned."