GOP Renews Complaints Over Voter Registrations

Evan Perez, writing in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, said:

As most states finalize voter rolls this week, Republican officials are reviving alarms about vote fraud.

One of the biggest instances of suspicious registrations is here in New Mexico, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a preliminary investigation into 1,400 potentially fraudulent voter registrations in the state's most populous county.

It's far from clear that the number of suspicious registrations is enough to affect the outcome of the presidential vote, even in tight states, elections officials say.

This kind of thing ought to anger any American regardless of his or her political affiliation. What people who are responsible for voter fraud is essentially saying is that they simply don't believe in the American people choosing their own leaders. Our election laws, in their eyes, is something that restrains the Republican Party and is there for the Democratic Party to circumvent.

Read the rest of the WSJ piece.