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The Constitution and voter fraud

 It occurs to me that I am equally disenfranchised if I am not allowed to vote AND if my vote is invalidated by an equal and fraudulently cast vote.

The difference is that many ways to vote legally exist, and quite obviously most of our mass media has been taking great pains on helping people navigate them.  But there is no legal means to prevent my vote being invalidated through fraud.  That I can’t do.  My government–the police and legal powers of my governments–have to do that for me.

Think of it this way: after blacks got the right to vote in the South, would it have made any difference if for every vote they cast for a Republican, a fraudulent vote was cast for the local Dixiecrat?  Not allowing voting, and allowing voter fraud, are practically equal.

It seems too much to hope for, but there would seem to be some cause, some valid legal, Constitutional cause, for the Supreme Court to weigh in.  Fraud amounts to a violation of the Equal Protection Clause, and perhaps other clauses as well.  It is a structural inequality, and an affront to the notion of equal justice.

And fraud is OBVIOUSLY happening.  It does not take good eyes to see lightning.