Morning Call columnist Paul Carpenter this morning discussed the problems of ballot access that I detailed in my previous posting. Needless to say, I was pleased. I was not pleased, however, that he then went on to belittle the Photo I.D. law (he called the controversy a “flap”).
He noted that Pennsylvania recently had 200,000 duplicate registrations. I sent an email to Mr. Carpenter explaining that this was hardly an issue of fraud, pointing out that when I was registering voters and they weren’t sure whether or not they were registered, I would urge them to fill out the form anyway. If they were already registered, the Registrar’s office would catch the duplicate. In any case, I don’t see the relevance of the I.D. bill, since when you vote, you need to sign in, and any duplicate will be caught by the poll workers.
I doubt if you will see an acknowledgement of my email by Mr. Carpenter. He strikes me as a man who would not like to admit he screwed up. But he did.
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