I'd very much like to see aggressive prosecution off ALL forms of electoral misbehavior, including all cases of people sending out letters that deliberately mislead voters about their polling places or times of voting, letters that falsely suggest that they are not properly registered, phone calls that misdirect them, and so forth. And of course, any outright vote fraud must be prosecuted aggressively. Let's throw all those crooks in jail!

just wondering Bill,

if people in these districts are committing fraud, shouldnt they be stopped??? regardless of the color of the skin of the persons committing the fraud???

you call it voter disruption... I call it fraud disruption...surely you dont mean to suggest that we are a society that should allow fraud to affect the election process(even if it helps the guy you're rooting for)... that surely would be exclusionary, wouldnt it?

also, how does providing legit ID to prove you are who you say you are intimidate or supress or disenfranchise or disrupt anyones ability to vote???

PS: Im a Democrat... and Im disgusted by the 'win at any cost, even if we have to cheat' mentality of my party... see the Pennsylvania prison voter registration program... sad... we fight for the right to keep military's votes from being counted while actively signing up the prison roles...

This is nothing more than throwing the race card at an otherwise longstanding and neutrally balanced provision of the law to handcuff those who would try to assure honest elections. Each side claims to have registered many new voters and each has been accused of fraud in doing so. The Democrats claim to have registered more new voters. But they claim a pass on the duty to show the legitimacy of their new voters by screaming about racism.

Last presidential election saw Democrats complain about the vote in many predominately Democratic areas and try to get the courts to change the counting. This election is likely to see far more involvement by lawyers and judges. Many people disagreed with the outcome last time. More will undoubtedly disagree this time and the whole process will fall into disrepute and ridicule.

Seriously, have we come to the point where victory itself is more important than having an election that people see is fair? That's going to be terribly dangerous in the long run, as it is a game that both sides can play. If they do, the credibility of our democratic system will be lost.

I couldn't agree more with the argument that playing the game within the established rules is far preferable to trying to change the rules after the outcome seems cast.