Van Hollen on the right track

Attorney General Van Hollen has taken aim at ineligible voters. It's about time!

Saying illegal Wisconsin votes could sway the presidential election, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has sued the state elections agency to force ineligible voters off the rolls.

But election experts warned that if the Justice Department lawsuit is successful, eligible voters could be disenfranchised and the state could face a post-election ballot-counting frenzy similar to Florida's after the 2000 presidential race.

"You shouldn't penalize the voter because you've got mistakes in your database," said Dan Tokaji, an election law expert at Ohio State University. "That's the absolute worst thing to do."

Actually the absolute worst thing would be to have voters illegally voting multiple times in a "fair and clean" election, discounting honest people's votes, unfairly.

The worst thing would be for the Wisconsin "Government Accountability Board" - keyword, accountability - to ignore voter registration accuracy on top of it's sucking at everything else. (Shoot, did I say that outloud?) And nothing is more important than the integrity of our democratic system in a targeted state during a Presidential election - on which the future of the nation could hinge. The GAB's inaction would leave the Wisconsin voting system open to fraud and theft.

Let's applaud JB Van Hollen for fulfilling a campaign promise, protecting the voters and the integrity of Wisconsin's elections.