In Florida, where the Bush-Gore presidential election was decided by 537 votes, the New York Daily News found in 2004 that between 400 and 1,000 voters registered in Florida and New York City had voted twice in at least one recent election.
In New York in 2002 and 2004, between 400 and 1,000 voters were alleged to have voted once in New York and once in Florida. These allegations were also prompted by a flawed attempt to match names and birthdates. We are aware of public sources substantiating only two cases, yielding an overall documented fraud rate of 0.000009%.
John Fund, whose zombie factoid this is (as it for lots of "voter fraud" horror stories), has some other good stuff here, like this very, very sad attempt at a "gotcha":
Selective outrage, anyone? In 1995, Barack Obama sued Illinois over its voter registration rolls on behalf of the radical group ACORN, and he now rails against Clintonista attempts to shut down Nevada caucus sites and photo ID laws. But just last September, Oprah Winfrey held a lavish fundraiser for Mr. Obama at her California estate. None of the 1,500 guests could enter until they presented a government-issued photo ID that could be compared to a guest list. When asked about this, the Obama campaign had no comment.
I bet they didn't. Because it's appallingly stupid, even by the standards of the Wall Street Journal opinion pages.
(As for the Nevada culinary workers/teachers lawsuit business, I haven't followed it closely -- though it does seem like Fund's account of it isn't exactly square with, well, the WSJ's own reporting, and I'm not especially impressed with the information that "the lawsuit has created an uproar among voters" as evidenced by the information that it "was the No. 1 issue among 30 Nevada Democrats participating in a Fox News focus group on Tuesday night." I'd need to know more before I denounce anyone, and currently I'm too busy getting ready to make fun of Jonah Goldberg. I have no problems kicking a man when he's dumb.)
