With all the propoganda going on about the spectre of voter fraud, you owe it to yourself to watch this interview with Mark Crispin Miller from last night's edition of Bill Moyer's Journal.

Miller definitively shows that voter fraud in this country is miniscule compared to the efforts at voter suppression.

I have shared this thought before, but it bares repeating. In a corporation, what happens in the corporation is controlled by the shareholders. In a corporation, individuals can own more than one share of stock. They can even control the majority of the stock and what they say goes.

In this corporation we call the United States of America (we are actually, of course, a Republic, not a corporation. I'm trying to make a comparison here.) each of us over the age of 18 have one share of stock. That's all we get, no more and no less.

So if you're trying to leverage the value of your vote and others "like you" against others who are not "like you", then you have two ways to do it, other than persuading others to vote "like you".

One is to commit voter fraud and use personal records to have votes recorded for people who do not exist (individuals voting multiple times under false identities.) The other is to keep others who are not "like you" from voting. While both have gone on in this country, the one second one is the more pervasive at this time.

Listen to the show or read the transcript and you'll see what I mean.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10172008/profile.html