Letters to the Editor
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There is voter fraud and there is VOTE FRAUD
Unfortunately the article does not differentiate between the concept of fraud by voters and the more dangerous problems of rigging elections.
There is a limit as to how effective using physical persons to vote multiple times, vote the dead and the like can be. They all require a person to show up and commit an illegal act. During the time the polls are open there is a limit as to how many votes a single person can place since, in general, they would have to go to different polling places to avoid suspicion and arrest. Additionally there is a limit to how many people are willing to break the law for any politician or party.
This boogie man argument is another example of "welfare queen" stereotyping.
Much more dangerous is VOTE FRAUD by rigging the system. In the old days you needed multiple people placed throughout the system to add votes by "stuffing" the ballot boxes. This type of fraud was allegedly honed to a fine edge in the 60's by Mayor Dailey in Chicago. It took a big organization to pull this off but it is much more effective than working with individual voters
With the current crop of computerized voting machines it appears that one person can do the work of many. We have seen the sort of numbers that come out of these machines. More votes than registered voters in the precinct, negative numbers and integer overflows.
This evidence points to massive VOTE FRAUD that you won't see many Republicans rushing out to investigate.